The COVID-19 Catastrophe

The COVID-19 Catastrophe
Author :
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 143
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781509546459
ISBN-13 : 1509546456
Rating : 4/5 (456 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The COVID-19 Catastrophe by : Richard Horton

Download or read book The COVID-19 Catastrophe written by Richard Horton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest science policy failure in a generation. We knew this was coming. Warnings about the threat of a new pandemic have been made repeatedly since the 1980s and it was clear in January that a dangerous new virus was causing a devastating human tragedy in China. And yet the world ignored the warnings. Why? In this short and hard-hitting book, Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinizes the actions that governments around the world took – and failed to take – as the virus spread from its origins in Wuhan to the global pandemic that it is today. He shows that many Western governments and their scientific advisors made assumptions about the virus and its lethality that turned out to be mistaken. Valuable time was lost while the virus spread unchecked, leaving health systems unprepared for the avalanche of infections that followed. Drawing on his own scientific and medical expertise, Horton outlines the measures that need to be put in place, at both national and international levels, to prevent this kind of catastrophe from happening again. Were supposed to be living in an era where human beings have become the dominant influence on the environment, but COVID-19 has revealed the fragility of our societies and the speed with which our systems can come crashing down. We need to learn the lessons of this pandemic and we need to learn them fast because the next pandemic may arrive sooner than we think.


The COVID-19 Catastrophe Related Books

The COVID-19 Catastrophe
Language: en
Pages: 143
Authors: Richard Horton
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-13 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

GET EBOOK

The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest science policy failure in a generation. We knew this was coming. Warnings about the threat of a new
Averting Catastrophe
Language: en
Pages: 175
Authors: Cass R. Sunstein
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-27 - Publisher: NYU Press

GET EBOOK

Best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein examines how to avoid worst-case scenarios The world is increasingly confronted with new challenges related to climate chan
Doom
Language: en
Pages: 497
Authors: Niall Ferguson
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-04 - Publisher: Penguin

GET EBOOK

"All disasters are in some sense man-made." Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, no
The Price of Panic
Language: en
Pages: 173
Authors: Jay W. Richards
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-13 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

WHAT JUST HAPPENED? The human cost of the emergency response to COVID-19 has far outweighed the benefits. That’s the sobering verdict of a trio of scholars—
Covid-19
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Debora Mackenzie
Categories: COVID-19 (Disease)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-14 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

In a gripping, accessible narrative, a veteran science journalist lays out the shocking story of how the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic happened and how to make