The COVID-19 catastrophe : what's gone wrong and how to stop it happening again

By:

Horton, Richard

Publisher: Cambridge : Polity, 2021Edition: 2nd edContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781509549108
9781509549092
9781509549115

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

WC 517

Summary: 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 pandemic’s course, national responses, more transmissible mutant variants of the virus, and the launch of the world’s 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.

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Electronic book	Hillingdon Hospitals Library Services (Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation) Online		Available
Book	Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare Shelves	WC 506 HOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		17662

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-228).

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 pandemic’s course, national responses, more transmissible mutant variants of the virus, and the launch of the world’s 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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