Download or read book Invisible Invasion The COVID 19 Pandemic Begins written by Marie Bender and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic from its emergence in Wuhan, China, to its worldwide spread. Actions by different countries to slow its spread such as lockdowns, face masks, social distancing, and widespread testing are examined. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book The Invisible Siege written by Dan Werb and published by Crown. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A journey into the origins of COVID-19 and the discovery of vaccines and potential cures . . . I learned so much that I didn’t know before—above all, I met the subtle warriors of the laboratory who are working to save all of us from the horror of new pandemics.”—Richard Preston, bestselling author of The Hot Zone and The Demon in the Freezer One of Publishers Weekly’s top ten science books of the season 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 for decades to stop a looming viral pandemic. When virologist Ralph Baric began researching coronaviruses in the 1980s, the field was a scientific backwater—the few variants that infected humans caused little more than the common cold. But when a novel coronavirus sparked the 2003 SARS epidemic, and then the MERS epidemic a decade later, Baric and his allies realized that time was running out before a pandemic strain would make the inevitable jump from animals to human hosts. In The Invisible Siege, Werb unpacks the dynamic history and microscopic complexity of an organism that has wreaked cycles of havoc upon the world for millennia. Elegantly tracing decades of scientific investigation, Werb’s book reveals how Baric’s team of scientists hatched an audacious plan not merely to battle COVID-19 but to end pandemics forever. Yet as they raced to find a cure, they ran into a complicated nexus of science, ethics, industry, and politics that threatened to derail their efforts just as COVID-19 loomed ever larger. The Invisible Siege is an urgent and moving testament to the unprecedented scientific movement to stop COVID-19—and a powerful look at the infuriating factors that threaten to derail discovery and leave the world vulnerable to the inevitable coronaviruses to come.
Download or read book Silent Invasion written by Deborah Birx and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most revealing pandemic book yet."—The Atlantic The definitive, inside account of the Trump Administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic from White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator and Coronavirus Task Force member, Dr. Deborah Birx. In late February 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx—a lifelong federal health official who had worked at the CDC, the State Department, and the US Army across multiple presidential administrations—was asked to join the Trump White House Coronavirus Task Force and assist the already faltering federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic. For weeks, she’d been raising the alarm behind the scenes about what she saw happening in public—from the apparent lack of urgency at the White House to the routine downplaying of the risks to Americans. Once in the White House, she was tasked with helping fix the broken federal approach and making President Trump see the danger this virus posed to all of us. Silent Invasion is the story of what she witnessed and lived for the next year—an eye-opening, inside account, detailed here for the first time, of the Trump Administration’s response to the greatest public health crisis in modern times. Regarded with suspicion in the West Wing from day one, Dr. Birx goes beyond the media speculation and political maneuvering to show what she was really up against in the Trump White House. Digging into the hard-fought victories, the costly mistakes, and the human drama surrounding the administration’s efforts, she examines the forces that crippled efforts to control the virus and explores why these blunders continue to haunt us today. And yet amid the agonizing missteps were bright spots that point the way forward—the fastest vaccine creation in history, governors that put their citizens’ health first, and Tribal Nations that demonstrated the powerful role of community in curbing spread, despite their criminally underfunded healthcare systems. Collectively these successes reveal the valiant work of many who were committed to saving lives, as well as highlighting the dire need to reform our public health institutions, so they are nimble and resilient enough to confront the next pandemic. With the pandemic now moving into its third year confounding two presidential administrations, Dr. Birx presents a story at once urgent and frustratingly unfinished, as Covid-19 continues to put thousands of American lives at risk. The end result is the most comprehensive and extensive accounting to date of the Trump Administration’s struggle to control the biggest health crisis in generations—a revelatory look at how we can learn from our mistakes and prevent this from happening again.
Download or read book Leaders Take Charge Guiding the Nation through COVID 19 written by Rachael L. Thomas and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines actions of national leaders to combat the spread of COVID-19 such as the Trump Administration's declaration of a public health emergency and creation of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, the WHO's pandemic declaration, and the actions of national governors and global leaders to stop the spread. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book Financial Free Fall The COVID 19 Economic Crisis written by Marie Bender and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines measures taken to combat COVID-19 such as lockdowns and closing of businesses and the economic consequences of these acts such as the permanent closing of retail stores, loss of income, discarding of farm products, record unemployment, the increase in use of social services such as food banks, and the relief brought by the HEROES Act. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book A New Normal Life after COVID 19 written by Rachael L. Thomas and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines how life is different after COVID-19 such as lowered CO2 emissions, elbow bumping instead of handshakes, telemedicine, online shopping, voting by mail, and a global virus research database. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book Coronavirus The Invisible Killer written by John Abrams and published by Libera Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a communicable disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. On March 11,The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a pandemic, which causes a sickness known as COVID-19 that has spread vastly to nearly every country.The virus has killed more than 128,000 people and infested more than 2 millionThis book provides detailed information on the origin and history strain that causes COVID-19 .The countries and territories affected by and their responses, measures to manage, aid and preventing the spread of the ongoing pandemic .Detail insights are given to signs and symptoms, the causes, diagnosis that is associated with the transmission, workplace hazards, the use of medications, experimental treatments, handling and supporting mental health conditions, reinfection ,the social impact and the crusade of misinformation in the world.The manuscript answers vital questions regarding: What is the novel coronavirus?Should I be Tested for coronavirus How do you catch the coronavirus?Can coronaviruses be transmitted from person to person? What happens if you catch the coronavirus?Is there a treatment for a novel coronavirus? Why are people worried about catching the coronavirus? Is there any cure for the coronavirus?What can I do to protect myself?Why are there a lockdown within countries? What can I do to help with this pandemic? Whats the economy of world future?This disease is shifting lives across the globe and will have a lifelong effect on us allA Portion of Royalties from this book will be donated to medical charities supporting with the international response to this pandemic.
Download or read book Invisible Battlefield A Global History Of Epidemics written by Natalya Rapoport and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invisible Battlefield: Whether the reader is interested in the history of medicine, intrigued by the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, or fascinated by the medical discoveries, 'The Invisible Battlefield' promises to be an enlightening and memorable read. The book offers crucial insights into our present by exploring our past. The author weaves an intricate tapestry of stories that reveal the immense political, social, and psychological impact of epidemics. Unusual for a book of this genre, it presents not just an academic treatise, but also a vivid biographical and autobiographical saga that combines historical analysis with the author's unique perspective. As a stark example, the text unravels the mysteries of the pneumonic plague and smallpox outbreaks in mid-20th-century Moscow, shedding light on the complex interplay between public health crises and government control. The historical novel 'Eight Days of Quarantine' reveals how the secret police, honed by the harrowing Great Terror, quickly identified and isolated those in contact with a plague patient in a covert operation, preventing the outbreak from becoming an epidemic. If adapted for the screen, this historical novel could serve not only as a gripping medical thriller, but also as a powerful metaphor for a Covid-19 epidemic. The chapters on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic and the author's family's experiences in Venice during the horrific first Covid-19 wave read like a detective story. The book is not only highly informative, but also incredibly engaging and relatable.
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Download or read book Viral written by Matt Ridley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chan and Ridley write with an urgency...that inspires gripping depictions of what viruses are, how infectious-disease laboratories work and wonderfully lucid descriptions of bats. . . . They powerfully recount how dangerous pathogens can both leak from a lab and emerge in nature." (New York Times Book Review) Understanding how Covid-19 started is crucial for the future of humankind. Viral is the most incisive and authoritative book about the search for the source of the virus. A new virus descended on the human species in 2019 wreaking unprecedented havoc. Finding out where it came from and how it first jumped into people is an urgent priority, but early expectations that this would prove an easy question to answer have been dashed. Nearly two years into the pandemic, the crucial mystery of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is not only unresolved but has deepened. In this uniquely insightful book, a scientist and a writer join forces to try to get to the bottom of how a virus whose closest relations live in bats in subtropical southern China somehow managed to begin spreading among people more than 1,500 kilometres away in the city of Wuhan. They grapple with the baffling fact that the virus left none of the expected traces that such outbreaks usually create: no infected market animals or wildlife, no chains of early cases in travellers to the city, no smouldering epidemic in a rural area, no rapid adaptation of the virus to its new host—human beings. To try to solve this pressing mystery, Viral delves deep into the events of 2019 leading up to 2021, the details of what went on in animal markets and virology laboratories, the records and data hidden from sight within archived Chinese theses and websites, and the clues that can be coaxed from the very text of the virus’s own genetic code. The result is a gripping detective story that takes the reader deeper and deeper into a metaphorical cave of mystery. One by one the authors explore promising tunnels only to show that they are blind alleys, until, miles beneath the surface, they find themselves tantalisingly close to a shaft that leads to the light.
Download or read book Where is God in a Coronavirus World written by John Lennox and published by The Good Book Company. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How belief in a loving and sovereign God helps us to make sense of and cope with the coronavirus outbreak. We are living through a unique, era-defining period. Many of our old certainties have gone, whatever our view of the world and whatever our beliefs. The coronavirus pandemic and its effects are perplexing and unsettling for all of us. How do we begin to think it through and cope with it? In this short yet profound book, Oxford mathematics professor John Lennox examines the coronavirus in light of various belief systems and shows how the Christian worldview not only helps us to make sense of it, but also offers us a sure and certain hope to cling to.
Download or read book The Covid 19 Intelligence Failure written by Erik J. Dahl and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth analysis of why COVID-19 warnings failed and how to avert the next disaster Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for years about the potential for a deadly pandemic, but in the end global surveillance and warning systems were not enough to avert the COVID-19 disaster. In The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure, Erik J. Dahl demonstrates that understanding how intelligence warnings work ? and how they fail ? shows why the years of predictions were not enough. In the first in-depth analysis of the topic, Dahl examines the roles that both traditional intelligence services and medical intelligence and surveillance systems play in providing advance warning against public health threats ? and how these systems must be improved for the future. For intelligence to effectively mitigate threats, specific, tactical-level warnings must be collected and shared in real time with receptive decision makers who will take appropriate action. Dahl shows how a combination of late and insufficient warnings about COVID-19, the Trump administration's political aversion to scientific advice, and decentralized public health systems all exacerbated the pandemic in the United States. Dahl's analysis draws parallels to other warning failures that preceded major catastrophes from Pearl Harbor to 9/11, placing current events in context. The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure is a wake-up call for the United States and the international community to improve their national security, medical, and public health intelligence systems and capabilities.
Download or read book Made in China written by Jasper Becker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What might COVID-19 mean for, and reveal about, China's place in the world? The coronavirus pandemic started in Wuhan, home to the leading lab studying the SARS virus and bats. Was that pure coincidence? This book explores what we know, and still don't know, about the origins of COVID-19, and how it was handled in China. We may never get all the answers, but much is already clear: China's record as the origin of earlier pandemics, and its struggle to bring contagious diseases under control; its history as both a victim of biological warfare and a developer of deadly bioweapons. When Covid broke out, Wuhan was building science parks to realise Beijing's ambitions in biotech research. Whoever achieves global leadership of the gene-editing industry stands to harvest great power and wealth. China has already challenged Western technological supremacy with 5G and in other industries. Yet this tiny, invisible virus has cruelly exposed a critical flaw in the Chinese political system: obsessive secrecy. The West wanted to trust the PRC, hoping that, as it prospered, it would become an open society. Made in China reveals how Beijing's leaders have betrayed that trust.
Download or read book What Is the Coronavirus Disease COVID 19 written by Michael Burgan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times Best-Selling series tells the story of how COVID-19, a coronavirus, was first identified and how it spread throughout the world in the new Who HQ Now format for trending topics. The coronavirus disease COVID-19 emerged in November 2019. By March 2020, cities all around the world closed schools, offices, restaurants and other public spaces deemed “non-essential” in an attempt to contain the fast-spreading virus. People struggled to follow government orders, stay indoors, and limit contact with others. But the virus that caused one of the world’s deadliest pandemics eventually killed over five million people worldwide. This is the story of how COVID-19 changed the world seemingly overnight, and forever.
Download or read book Viral Spread Then and Now written by Rachael L. Thomas and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title uses a then-and-now approach to compare the spread of the influenza virus in the 1918 pandemic with that of SARS-CoV-2 in the COVID-19 pandemic. Powerful photographs and content-packed sidebars will help readers explore how these two crises have impacted the world. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book Invisible War written by Preston William Child and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle for survival begins now! In the nail-biting thriller 'Invisible War: Trail of the Virus' a clandestine biological nightmare begins to unfold. As an unseen and deadly virus threatens to engulf the world, the question looms: Who can stop this shadowy pandemic? Enter the President's Dozen, under the experienced command of John 'Doc' Holiday. But with a new President at the helm and cracks forming within their ranks, can this elite team rise above their differences and face humanity's greatest threat? Will their fractured trust be their undoing, or can they find unity in the chaos? As the clock ticks and the virus spreads, 'Invisible War' takes you on a heart-stopping journey through the dark corridors of power and the perilous world of bio-terrorism. With each page, the stakes get higher. Can the President's Dozen outmaneuver a global conspiracy that operates in the shadows? Dive into 'Invisible War: Trail of the Virus' and join the race to save humanity. Discover if unity and resilience can prevail over an invisible, insidious enemy. The battle for survival begins now - are you ready to be on the front lines?
Download or read book Pandemic written by Slavoj Žižek and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes and speculate on the profundity of its consequences? We live in a moment when the greatest act of love is to stay distant from the object of your affection. When governments renowned for ruthless cuts in public spending can suddenly conjure up trillions. When toilet paper becomes a commodity as precious as diamonds. And when, according to Žižek, a new form of communism – the outlines of which can already be seen in the very heartlands of neoliberalism – may be the only way of averting a descent into global barbarism. Written with his customary brio and love of analogies in popular culture (Quentin Tarantino and H. G. Wells sit next to Hegel and Marx), Žižek provides a concise and provocative snapshot of the crisis as it widens, engulfing us all.
