The COVID-19 Catastrophe : What's Gone Wrong and How to Stop it Happening Again / Richard Horton
พิมพ์ครั้งที่
2nd ed.
พิมพลักษณ์
Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2021
จำนวนหน้า
xviii, 228 pages ; 20 cm.
หมายเหตุบรรณานุกรม
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-228).
หมายเหตุสารบัญ
From Wuham to the World -- Why Wewe We Not Prepared? -- Science: The Paradox of Success and Failure -- First Lines of Defence -- The Politics of COVID-19 --The Risk Society Revisited -- Towards the Next Pandemic -- Epilogue
สาระสังเขป
This expanded, updated, and completely revised edition of The COVID-19 Catastrophe is the authoritative guide to a global health crisis that has consumed the world. Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinises the actions taken by governments as they sought to contain the novel coronavirus. He shows that indecision and disregard for scientific evidence has led many political leaders to preside over hundreds of thousands of needless deaths and the worst global economic crisis for three centuries. This new edition provides a systematic discussion of the pandemics course, national responses, more transmissible mutant variants of the virus, and the launch of the worlds largest ever vaccination programme. Only now are we beginning to understand the full scale of the COVID-19 crisis. 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.
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