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This guide compiles helpful information about the pandemic, what it is and what we are doing about it.
1) Nightmare scenario: inside the Trump administration's response to the pandemic that changed history
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From two reporters for the Washington Post comes an account of the Trump administration's handling, and mishandling, of the coronavirus outbreak, a once-in-a-century pandemic that upended life across the globe that resulted in hundreds of thousands of lives lost, a cratered economy, and the remaking of the U.S. as an unwieldy pariah in the global hierarchy.
"Since the day Donald Trump was elected, his critics warned that an unexpected crisis would...
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Dang dai ming jia volume 96
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Yun chen wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2022
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中文(繁體)
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MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Quarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. Manaugh and Twilly track the history and future of quarantine around the globe. It is a story of emergency isolation, but they also guide us through a nuclear-waste isolation facility...
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Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China in January 2020. Politicians, government officials, business leaders, and public-health professionals were unprepared for the most devastating pandemic in a century. Many of the world's biggest drug and vaccine makers were slow to react or couldn't muster an effective response. It was up to a small group of unlikely and untested scientists and executives to save civilization....
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Setting the great crisis of 2020 in broad historical perspective, Niall Ferguson challenges the conventional wisdom that our failure to cope better with disaster was solely a crisis of political leadership, as opposed to a more profound systemic problem. Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Honoring to the medical professionals around the country who've risked their lives to fight the virus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author provides essential information--and fascinating historical parallels--examining the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
8) Vaccines
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John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"Measles, mumps, and rubella--oh my! Why are we vaccinating our children--and ourselves--against these diseases, and what goes on in our bodies after the needle comes out? Vaccines For Dummies will inform and entertain you about all things vax, including how the first vaccines were discovered, what's in modern vaccines, how they are tested and approved for use, and why the CDC's vaccine schedule is what it is. Inside, you'll also find a complete guide...
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MR
Pub. Date
agosto de 2020.
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Español
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Publisher Annotation: On December 31, 2019, China informed the World Health Organization (WHO) about the appearance of several cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, a city in the province of Hubei. On January 23, Hubei was closed. On January 31, the WHO decreed a global health emergency. After the highest global health body declared the appearance of this global pandemic and journalists, government officials and politicians - although not...
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Little, Brown Spark
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2020.
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English
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Infectious disease has the terrifying power to disrupt everyday life on a global scale, overwhelming public and private resources and bringing trade and transportation to a halt. In today's world, it's easier than ever to move people, animals, and materials around the planet, but the same advances that make modern infrastructure so efficient have made epidemics and even pandemics nearly inevitable. So what can -- and must -- we do in order to protect...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over. But even as governments around the world try to get it under control, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent another pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy? Can we even hope to accomplish this? Bill Gates believes the answer is yes, and he has written a largely upbeat book that lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should learn from...
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Crown
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"An engrossing family history of coronaviruses and the modern-day scientific quest to conquer viral epidemics forever. The urgency of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic has fixed humanity's gaze on the present crisis. But the story of this pandemic extends far further back than many realize. In this engrossing narrative, epidemiologist Dan Werb traces the rising threat of the coronavirus family and the attempts by a small group of scientists who worked...
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Kitsune Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"La primera guía práctica y accesible para gestionar los síntomas del covid persistente. Se estima que más de un 10 % de los pacientes que se han contagiado de covid siguen sufriendo síntomas a medio y largo plazo. Sin embargo, no existe una orientación clara para estos pacientes y circula mucha información errónea sobre la enfermedad y sus secuelas. Esta guía, elaborada por el equipo de médicos especialistas de la Clínica Postcovid de...
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ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"At the beginning of 2020, doctors and scientists knew they were in a race to save lives. They needed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, find treatments for COVID-19, and develop a vaccine and distribute it to people all over the globe. Using the knowledge scientists had gained over the year, they had developed ways to prevent and treat COVID-19. There was no cure, but vaccines were being administered"--
17) The first shots: the epic rivalries and heroic science behind the race to the coronavirus vaccine
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Sugar23 Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Heroic science. Chaotic politics. Billionaire entrepreneurs. Award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings the defining story of our times alive through compulsively readable, first-time reporting on the players leading the fight against a vicious virus. The First Shots, soon to be the subject of an HBO limited series with superstar director and producer Adam McKay (Succession, Vice, The Big Short), draws on exclusive, high-level access to weave...
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Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Transformative change can come out of the COVID-19 crisis, which has exposed everything that's wrong with decades of the world's governments betting on militarism, competition and wealth creation. A return to sanity and humane governance is still possible. We need a pandemic pivot. Both a sobering analysis of the present moment and a hopeful cry on behalf of the power inherent in a global, people-oriented response to the pandemic and the societal...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Two of America's leading national security experts offer the most definitive account of the global impact of COVID-19 and the political shock waves it will have on the US and the world order in the 21st Century. "Informed by history, reporting, and a truly global perspective, this is an indispensable first draft of history and blueprint for how we can move forward." -Ben Rhodes The COVID-19 crisis is the greatest shock to world order since World...
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"Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America's COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything? ... [H]e shows how the coronavirus and its variants were able to trounce America's pandemic preparations, and he outlines the steps that must be taken to protect against the next outbreak. As the pandemic unfolded, Gottlieb was in regular contact with all the key players in Congress, the Trump administration, and the drug and diagnostic...
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