The October numbers had reached 1 million deaths and over 37 million infected. Worldwide, in late-May over 350,000 had died and more than 3.7 million infected. By mid-October 2020, deaths had increased to over 210,000 and nearly 8,000,000 have been infected. In late-May 2020, the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and its related illness COVID-19, had resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 Americans and infected nearly 1.7 million. We conclude with a set of recommendations to counter malign foreign influence. The article includes the scenarios of such weaponization, including the description of focal points that may be attacked. Possible coronavirus effects are inventoried and categorized into economic, healthcare, and environmental issue areas that may be leveraged and weaponized. The problem being considered is the potential for Russian malign foreign influence to exploit the divides exacerbated by the coronavirus and target the United States and its European allies during the period leading to the 2020 elections and beyond. The effects have highlighted longstanding societal divisions, disproportionately harming minority groups and the socioeconomically disadvantaged with Black Americans and their communities hit especially hard. The effects of the novel coronavirus and its related disease COVID-19 have been far reaching, touching American society and its Western partners’ health and mortality, economics, social relationships, and politics.
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