Covid-19 is a disastrous pandemic that broke out into the world in 2019,
and continued to spread until the date of this paper in 2021. However, the
prediction of the onset of its symptoms did not always mitigate its spread.
Though it was believed that the highly educated, with their hygienic
precautions and health awareness were far from being infected by most
infectious diseases, they could not escape its psychological and social
effects. This paper aimed to uncover some of the possible reasons behind the
infection of five cases from three traditional families chosen as examples to
share in explaining the causes of the spread of this pandemic among a
vulnerable cross-section of the middle aged and elderly highly educated, where
the researcher passed through that experience in Cairo Egypt, since the early
of April to the late of May 2021. Through the theory of Jennifer Johnson-Hankswith its application of
demographic anthropology perspective, this study highlighted the importance of
social and cultural factors in explaining causes and effects of demographic
data, in addition to potential solutions as future precautions for that
Pandemic.
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