Mackenzie, Debora,

Stopping the next pandemic : how COVID-19 can help save humanity / Debora MacKenzie. - Revised and expanded. - xxix, 353 pages ; 20 cm

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

9780306924224

2022363126


COVID-19 (Disease)
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
Communicable diseases--Epidemiology--History.
Public health surveillance.
Epidemics--History.
Epidemics--Prevention.

RA644.C67 / M25 2021

614.5/92414