ABSTRACT
In Chapter 2, social capital and its impact on preventing the spread of COVID-19 are analysed. Utilising select research tools, the correlation between social capital (the independent variable) and the number of hospitalisations, mortality, vaccination rates, and confirmed cases of COVID-19 (the dependent variables) has been examined. The analysis should allow to answer the question to what extent societies bear responsibility for the spread of the virus as well as ought to identify those countries that are most effective in combating the spread of the pandemic together with showing the relationship existing between selected indicators of social capital and mortality.
