The coronavirus outbreak has infected more than 3.5 million globally, with above 247,000 casualties, per Johns Hopkins University data. The United States alone has recorded a death toll of more than 67,000. The outbreak has caused an unprecedented collapse of economic activities as governments are forced to shut down commerce and implement social distancing measures in an effort to contain the spread of the virus.

The pandemic has resulted in some changes in the lifestyle and preferences of Americans. Most of the surveys have found that people are more interested in opting for online shopping rather than visiting a brick-and-mortar store for their purchases of essential food items and supplies. Even as the U.S. economy starts to reopen in phases and social distancing restrictions are being eased, people will try to minimize the human-to-human contacts. Against this backdrop, let’s look at some ETF areas that can gain from the lifestyle changes amid the crisis:

Work-From-Home Trend

In the current scenario, people have to maintain social distancing and work remotely. Resultantly, cloud computing is emerging as a key technology in the fight against coronavirus. Cloud computing and storage have empowered video conferencing, gaming, e-commerce shopping, remote project collaboration, online classes, editing, etc. It is supporting organizations in remotely processing a lot of information, developing and running key applications and services, and also helping employees across the world collaborate while working. Investors can look at the following ETFs that can gain from the trend -- First Trust Cloud Computing ETF SKYY and Global X Cloud Computing ETF CLOU (read: ETFs to Gain on Cloud Computing Growth Amid Coronavirus Crisis).

Online Shopping Trend

In order to avoid human-to-human contact, people are staying indoors and shopping online for all essentials, especially food items. In fact, non-store retail sales in March increased 3.1% sequentially and 9.7% year over year. Going by Signifyd’s Ecommerce Pulse data, there has been a 46% surge in overall e-commerce expenditures since late February. According to a Total Retail article, e-commerce sales are expected to grow more than 20% this year as there is an increasing number of first-time online shoppers. Against this backdrop, let’s look at some ETFs that can benefit from the new shopping trend like Amplify Online Retail ETF IBUY, ProShares Long Online/Short Stores ETF CLIX and ProShares Online Retail ETF ONLN (read: What's in Store for Work-From-Home ETF & Stock Earnings?).