It was really interesting, early in the pandemic, how people turned to disaster movies and books about the very same concept. Personally, I found myself rereading Mira Grant's Feed, which features a zombie apocalypse due to a virus that infects literally everyone, and led to severe restrictions on the number of people who can gather, fear of other people, etc, etc. Katie Goh's The End tries to examine why that might be, and comment on a few examples.

Like all the Inklings series, it's pretty short, so it's hardly exhaustive. A chunk of it is focused on COVID specifically, which makes sense giving the timing of the book. I think it makes a good case for why disaster fiction interests and engages us, and I enjoyed the reading process.