The prophetic book that first warned against coronavirus crisis. This book, written by one of the world's leading experts in epidemiology, anticipated step by step the pandemic that is hitting the planet. This updated edition includes a prologue that thoroughly analyzes the coronavirus crisis: what is covid-19, what authorities should do, and how to deal with the next crisis.
Unlike natural disasters, whose impact is limited to a specific territory and period of time, pandemics have the ability to forever alter people's lives on a global scale: work, transportation, the economy, and even life. People's social lives can change radically.
As Ebola, Zica, Yellow Fever or now the coronavirus have shown, we are not prepared to manage a pandemic crisis. What can we do to protect ourselves from our deadliest enemy?
Drawing on the latest scientific discoveries, Osterholm explores the causes and consequences of a pandemic and ways to tackle it on a global and individual scale.
The author delves into the problems that loom over us due to the risk of the spread of a virus without a cure and the complexity that the search for that cure entails. Written as if it were a medical thriller, the book will help us understand the dangers of the current situation and the plan of action that we must follow.
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