Stopping the next pandemic : how COVID-19 can help save humanity / Debora MacKenzie.

By: Mackenzie, Debora [author.]
Language: English Publisher: New York: : Hachette Books, 2021Edition: Revised and expandedDescription: xxix, 353 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780306924224Subject(s): COVID-19 (Disease) | COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- | Communicable diseases -- Epidemiology -- History | Public health surveillance | Epidemics -- History | Epidemics -- PreventionDDC classification: 614.5/92414 LOC classification: RA644.C67 | M25 2021
Contents:
Could we have stopped this whole thing at the start? What are these emerging diseases, and why are they emerging? SARS, MERS you can't say we weren't warned Don't blame the bats Wasn't the pandemic supposed to be flu? So what do we do about disease? Things fall apart The pandemic that never should have happened and how to stop the next one
Summary: Over the last 30 years we learned nearly every lesson needed to stop this coronavirus outbreak in its tracks-- and we heeded almost none of them. The result is a pandemic on a scale never before seen in our lifetimes. MacKenzie lays out the full story of the previous viruses that should have prepared us, the shocking public health failures that paved the way, the failure to contain the outbreak, and most importantly, what we must do to prevent future pandemics
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Originally published as Covid-19:The pandemic that never should have happened and how to stop the next one: New York: Hachette Books, 2020.

Includes bibliographical references.

Could we have stopped this whole thing at the start?
What are these emerging diseases, and why are they emerging?
SARS, MERS
you can't say we weren't warned
Don't blame the bats
Wasn't the pandemic supposed to be flu?
So what do we do about disease?
Things fall apart
The pandemic that never should have happened
and how to stop the next one

Over the last 30 years we learned nearly every lesson needed to stop this coronavirus outbreak in its tracks-- and we heeded almost none of them. The result is a pandemic on a scale never before seen in our lifetimes. MacKenzie lays out the full story of the previous viruses that should have prepared us, the shocking public health failures that paved the way, the failure to contain the outbreak, and most importantly, what we must do to prevent future pandemics

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