This Corrigendum regards the article Greenberg, M. (2021). Seeking Shelter: How Housing and Urban Exclusion Shape Exurban Disaster. Sociologica, 15(1), 67–89. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/11869
The established scientific opinion at the time of publication — from the World Health Organization, Lancet, and others cited in this article — was that Covid 19 was a zoonotic disease likely spread by bats, in line with SARS, MERS, Asian swine flu, and other coronaviruses. Soon after, new evidence emerged that a lab leak in Wuhan may have been responsible in this case, yet with research into this still inconclusive and contested. Setting this unresolved case aside, however, there is still broad consensus that increasing contact across the wildlife-livestock-human interface is both generating and spreading infectious disease, particularly in rapidly urbanizing areas, and contributing to the new “pandemic age,” as discussed in this article.
The article is therefore amended on 2021-09-30 to add qualifiers when bats are mentioned in the case of Covid-19.