Download or read book The Threat of Pandemic Influenza written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-04-09 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, which many experts believe to be inevitable. Moreover, recent problems with the availability and strain-specificity of vaccine for annual flu epidemics in some countries and the rise of pandemic strains of avian flu in disparate geographic regions have alarmed experts about the world's ability to prevent or contain a human pandemic. The workshop summary, The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? addresses these urgent concerns. The report describes what steps the United States and other countries have taken thus far to prepare for the next outbreak of "killer flu." It also looks at gaps in readiness, including hospitals' inability to absorb a surge of patients and many nations' incapacity to monitor and detect flu outbreaks. The report points to the need for international agreements to share flu vaccine and antiviral stockpiles to ensure that the 88 percent of nations that cannot manufacture or stockpile these products have access to them. It chronicles the toll of the H5N1 strain of avian flu currently circulating among poultry in many parts of Asia, which now accounts for the culling of millions of birds and the death of at least 50 persons. And it compares the costs of preparations with the costs of illness and death that could arise during an outbreak.

Download or read book Flu written by Gina Kolata and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran journalist Gina Kolata's Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It presents a fascinating look at true story of the world's deadliest disease. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic raged. Children were left orphaned and families were devastated. As many American soldiers were killed by the 1918 flu as were killed in battle during World War I. And no area of the globe was safe. Eskimos living in remote outposts in the frozen tundra were sickened and killed by the flu in such numbers that entire villages were wiped out. Scientists have recently rediscovered shards of the flu virus frozen in Alaska and preserved in scraps of tissue in a government warehouse. Gina Kolata, an acclaimed reporter for The New York Times, unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. Delving into the history of the flu and previous epidemics, detailing the science and the latest understanding of this mortal disease, Kolata addresses the prospects for a great epidemic recurring, and, most important, what can be done to prevent it.

Download or read book A Framework for Assessing Mortality and Morbidity After Large Scale Disasters written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of a large-scale disaster, from the initial devastation through the long tail of recovery, protecting the health and well-being of the affected individuals and communities is paramount. Accurate and timely information about mortality and significant morbidity related to the disaster are the cornerstone of the efforts of the disaster management enterprise to save lives and prevent further health impacts. Conversely, failure to accurately capture mortality and significant morbidity data undercuts the nation's capacity to protect its population. Information about disaster-related mortality and significant morbidity adds value at all phases of the disaster management cycle. As a disaster unfolds, the data are crucial in guiding response and recovery priorities, ensuring a common operating picture and real-time situational awareness across stakeholders, and protecting vulnerable populations and settings at heightened risk. A Framework for Assessing Mortality and Morbidity After Large-Scale Disasters reviews and describes the current state of the field of disaster-related mortality and significant morbidity assessment. This report examines practices and methods for data collection, recording, sharing, and use across state, local, tribal, and territorial stakeholders; evaluates best practices; and identifies areas for future resource investment.

Download or read book Covid written by Gerry de Cadiz and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-28 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The human race is still grappling for ways how to counter the lethal impact of COVID-19, and by the time we found the cure, it may evolve again into something else that is more pathogenic, evasive and transmissible."COVID: Black Death 2.0 is a novel on how the Coronavirus disease originated and became the pandemic that changed the world as we know it today. The more than 50 million cases and at least a million deaths in just 9 months, which kept on increasing rapidly as days gone by, make us wonder if indeed this is just a naturally-occurring international epidemic or an artificially-induced genocide.Although the novel is a work of fiction with the usual element of thrill, action and suspense, but the plot was inspired by actual happenings. The narrative was written like a scientific treatise but in an easy and conversational manner. Anytime, the reader may refer to online resources to validate the concepts being presented.From Patient Zero case investigation to SARS-CoV-2 strain isolation, the 2019-nCoV outbreak was presented with in-depth treatment within the point of views of the World Health Organization, government policy makers, the medical practitioners and the ordinary people.The works of front liners were highlighted, especially the scientists involved in coming up with the COVID-19 vaccine. The tedious and risky process of formulating the cure will make people of various nationalities appreciate the sacrifices of our pandemic heroes.All the while, the way world leaders like Donald Trump and Xi Jinping handled the crisis affected significantly their respective population's responses and survivability from the virus. Aside from the United States and China, other countries also grapple with the surge in COVID-19 cases and fatalities that gravely affected their socio-political and economic way of life.Real-life events were reflected in a manner that a unified Al-Qaeda/Islamic State took advantage of the ongoing global health crisis in reinvigorating its jihadist cause for dominance and the reestablishment of a caliphate. Specifically, the COVID-19 altered the way the ongoing War on Terror is being executed by the U.S., NATO and other Coalition forces. Seldom could anyone find a book that portrays a balanced view of mainstream Islamic dogmas with that of AQ/ISIS convictions.The story unfolded when a mutated Coronavirus from HCoV-229E subspecie was discovered by a University of Cambridge doctorate student in Genetics from a 14th-century Black Death victim and brought to Wuhan Institute of Virology for comparative study on SARS-related diseases and formulation of its cure.But a rogue yet brilliant scientist stole the virus and, with the help of two deadly assassins, tested its potency in China, Europe and America, which led to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the world in total disorder, the Khalifa, disguised as a politically-influential industrial mogul in the United States, teamed-up with the scientist who was able to upgrade the level of evasiveness, transmissibility and pathogenicity of the hybrid virus by genetic engineering, the resultant super bioweapon getting deadlier with the infusion of the ricin poison.The multi-billionaire Sheikh of the Slaughterers and his Caliphate Army of federated Al-Qaeda/ISIS terrorists acquired the weapons to compel the United Nations to recognize his global hegemony. Failure to abide on his terms would mean worldwide jihad and 21st-century Black Death where the enemy is silent, unseen and unforgiving.The intended catastrophe will start with the infection, poison and death of at least 18 million inhabitants of Arizona, California, and Nevada served by a ricin-poisoned and coronavirus-contaminated Lake Mead water treatment facilities. With the Hoover Dam on the verge of being busted by a W80 thermonuclear weapon, the Khalifa's Operation Zulfiqar can bring back to wasteland the American West for generations to come.

Download or read book Covid Chaos What Happened And Why written by Robert J Sherertz and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COVID Chaos is a book about the 2019 SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic that was written real time, spanning the time from March 31, 2020 through December 31, 2021, by two Emeritus Professors of Infectious Diseases (Adult - RJS, Pediatrics - JSA). RJS's and JSA's careers began with the HIV pandemic, involved collaboration with the 2009 Influenza pandemic, and now are finishing up with the Coronavirus pandemic. The authors have broad experience with outbreaks, from the local level (RJS had career long responsibilities for controlling outbreaks at medical school hospitals and worked taking care of COVID-19 patients during the pandemic), all the way up to the pandemic level (JSA wrote a book about the 2009 Influenza pandemic and has worked with the WHO for the past 10 years.The aim of the book is to give the reader some insight into the global impact of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak during the first two years, from multiple perspectives (patient, healthcare provider, global citizen, public health, economic, geopolitical). An attempt was also made to understand how SARS-CoV-2 caused disease, both its pathogenesis at the individual patient level, and globally, as to how it was so successful at causing a pandemic and how it compares with other organisms capable of causing outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics. It is written to be of interest to anyone who likes to read and wants to know more about what happened during the COVID-19 pandemic and why.COVID Chaos was written by two infectious disease physicians, who each have over 35 years of experience caring for patients with a large variety of infectious diseases. Additionally, both did research in understanding the pathogenesis of infectious diseases, and collectively have many years of experience handling outbreaks at the local level, have been involved with guideline documents making recommendations for reducing infections at the national level, and have global experience managing international infectious diseases.The book begins with three first person accounts from physicians involved in COVID-19 care during the early pandemic, when it was overwhelming hospitals.It then tracks its course from Wuhan, China, to other parts of the world, while comparing and contrasting public health interventions, both at the hospital and local community level, all the way up to country level.The book attempts to understand the broad spectrum of COVID-19 disease, both clinically and pathophysiologically, as well as its global collateral damage. It explores in depth SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development, testing and the geopolitical problems with vaccine deployment, and attempts to understand the origin of SARS-CoV-2 and its place in the pantheon of other organisms causing pandemics.The book concludes with some late breaking pandemic events at the end of 2021 (Omicron variant, etc.) and a global photo essay about the pandemic.

Download or read book The Great Influenza written by John M. Barry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestseller “Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”—Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."—Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, "The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart." At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.

Download or read book COVID 19 ON TRIAL written by Rui Alexandre Gabirro and published by Hospitallers Order of the Good News. This book was released on 2021-07-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COVID-19 ON TRIAL Critical Analyses of a “Pandemic” Introduction 1 Chapter 1 The Nuremberg Code..................................................................3 Nuremberg 2.0.............................................................................4 WMA Declaration of Helsinki....................................................6 Informed Consent........................................................................6 The Vaccine Programme Has Been Rolled out in Breach of the Legal Requirements for Clinicians to obtain the Free and Informed Consent of Those Being Vaccinated................................................7 Three Major Questions................................................................8 UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.............................................................................................10 BILD Asks all Children for their Forgiveness!.........................11 Wire Fraud.................................................................................13 CDC Study Finds 78% of People Hospitalized for Covid were Overweight or Obese.....................................................................13 Yellow Card Scheme Shows.....................................................14 Chapter 2 Single Source of Truth...............................................................16 Everything Is Prohibited............................................................16 COVILAND..............................................................................17 The First Social Media Virus.....................................................17 COVID-19 Has Caused 6.9 Million Deaths Globally, More Than Double what Official Reports Show..........................19 Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington....................................................................................22 France & Germany Falsified ICU Bed Occupancy Figures to Justify Sanitary Restrictions..........................................................26 World Average Annual Number of Deaths................................27 The PCR Test Farce...................................................................28 I Discovered That There Was No Evidence That There Was A Virus...............................................................................................29 Eric Clapton after COVID Vaccination: “I Should Never Have Gone Near the Needle”..................................................................34 India Mucormycosis..................................................................35 The Epidemiology of Mucormycosis in India...........................37 Malnutrition and Pollution India's Biggest Health Hazard.......38 Trained Dogs can Detect Odour of COVID-19.........................39 Virus or Fecal Samples..............................................................39 The Virus Transmission Farce...................................................42 Medical Trade Propaganda........................................................42 Christian Drosten - The Real Face of the Coronavirus Farce...43 Corona-Explainer-In-Chief.......................................................43 German Government Advisory Board on Global Health..........45 The Virus Farce.........................................................................47 Clear Line on Nails A Symptoms of Covid-19.........................48 Sneezing is A “Classic” Symptoms of Covid-19......................48 Professor Timothy Spector........................................................49 The Emerging Field of Epigenetics...........................................50 Future of Jobs............................................................................51 We Tried to Infect Covid-19 into Bats, it Doesn't Grow Well in Bats................................................................................................52 The Variants of Concern and Emerging Mutations Farce.........52 Joint Biosecurity Centre............................................................53 Triple Mutant Variant................................................................54 Lying to Everybody...................................................................55 The Covid-19 Vaccine Farce.....................................................55 Spike Protein is a Toxin.............................................................56 Ingredients (as reported in the prescribing information) included in mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines.......................................60 SM-102 in Cloroform................................................................60 Safety Data Sheet......................................................................61 Vaccine Deaths..........................................................................63 Covid19 Vaccine Reports in USA.............................................64 Covid-19 Vaccine is a “Gene Therapy”....................................65 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency..........................67 DARPA Awards Moderna Therapeutics a Grant for up to $25 Million to Develop Messenger RNA Therapeutics.................68 Australia Drugs Regulator Never Seen the Study Data............69 UK Drugs Regulator We Didn't Read the Clinical Trial...........69 They Don't Understand What They Are Doing.........................70 We Have Essentially Been Taken Over by the Medical Trade Taliban............................................................................................71 Chapter 3 Follow the Money......................................................................73 The UK Government Business Plan..........................................74 Government Wants to Sell Your Medical Records....................74 Britain’s Status as a Scientific Superpower...............................75 The Plan is Predicated...............................................................76 The Bill Gates Business Plan....................................................77 CEPI - A New Organization Will Help Accelerate the Development of Vaccines..............................................................81 A Global Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness / Zoonotic Research Hubs................................................................82 UK Government Funds 8 Vaccine Passport Schemes...............83 Covid-19 Vaccine Passport........................................................83 Accelerate Genomic Medicine..................................................84 Chris Whitty..............................................................................84 Genomics...................................................................................85 Health Data................................................................................85 Applying Behavioural Science and Social Sciences in Health.............................................................................................85 Bill Gates and George Soros Buy Covid Test Company...........87 The Global South Market: Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania..........................................................................................87 Mologic.....................................................................................87 A Very Terrorised Country.........................................................89 We Have Been Fed a Diet of Fear and Scaremongering...........91 How Does Lack of Oxygen Affect the Brain?..........................91 “Long Covid” a Disability Eligible for Accommodation under Civil Rights Law............................................................................92 Deployment of Covert Psychologic Interventions....................93 The Modelling Farce.................................................................94 NHS (UK) Sells Patients Medical Records to Companies........95 We Expect this Positive Momentum to Continue.....................96 Pfizer Wants Military Bases & Bank Reserves as Collateral....97 Who owns Pfizer?.....................................................................99 The Vanguard Group.................................................................99 BlackRock...............................................................................100 Behind those Vaccines are Companies, Shareholders, Bankers........................................................................................101 Chapter 4 Algorithmic Medicine.............................................................103 Clinical Trial Service Unit.......................................................105 Chapter 5 COVID-19 Versus Law or The Medical Trade Against the People...........................................................................................109 You Must Not Do Your Own Research When It Comes To Science.........................................................................................109 Infection Fatality Rate Less than 0.20%.................................110 Get Covid And Live Longer....................................................110 Lock-down Farce Alcohol Related Deaths Rise by 20% in England During “Pandemic”........................................................111 That Fear that Didn't Happen, The Models Failed in late March, and They Failed in April, They Failed Basically.........................112 Lockdowns just Have One Consequence, that is Making Poor People a lot Poorer.......................................................................117 From Science Fiction to Science Farce...................................118 Weaponized Viruses................................................................118 Developing Medical Counter Measures for Coronaviruses 2016..............................................................................................119 Secret Pandemic Plan to Deny Care to Elderly 2016..............119 A Scenario to Facilitate Medical Countermeasure Communication 2017...................................................................120 If You Have To: Be Persuaded, Reminded, Pressured, Lied to, Incentivized, Coerced, Bullied, Socially Shamed, Guilt-tripped, Threatened, Punished and Criminalized.....................................121 Chapter 6 The First “Confirmed” Case of Covid-19 “Virus”..................123 The Isolation of the So-Called “Virus” Farce.........................124 Chapter 7 COVID-19 The Rule By Fear..................................................127 The CDC is Certainly Misleading...........................................128 Sweden No Lockdowns Led To Better Mental Health, Healthier Economy And Happier People.....................................................128 The Vaccine Farce...................................................................129 Those With 2 Vaccine Doses “May Still Die”.........................129 Vaccines Save Lives................................................................129 Anyone Who Is Claiming that any of this is Totally Safe is Either Confused or Lying.............................................................130 Last Summer With No Vaccines Magic..................................133 There is no FDA approved Vaccine to Prevent Covid-19.......134 NEJM Editor had Close Ties with the FDA authorisation process when publishing Covid-19 Vaccine Trials......................137 Social Distancing and Face Masks Forever.............................138 Covid-19 is not a Health Pandemic, it is an Ideological Pandemic......................................................................................138 Neil Ferguson..........................................................................138 Covid-19 as a Dangerous and Deadly Disease Needs to Change.........................................................................................139 The Goal of Developing and Delivering a Universal Influenza Vaccine.........................................................................................140 Chapter 8 Universal Basic Income Program............................................141 Wales to Launch Universal Basic Income Scheme.................141 Global Over-Population Is The Real Issue..............................142 But Baby Number 7 on the Way..............................................142 Global Health Emergency.......................................................142 Lockdown Every Two Years...................................................143 Bill Bowtell.............................................................................144 Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health..........................145 Chapter 9 States Ban Vaccine Passports..................................................149 World Health Organization (WHO)........................................150 The Vaccine Is Trust First Trust In science.............................151 The Patients Who Die, After and Possibly From a Vaccination...................................................................................151 The Data Support The Failure of the Vaccine.........................152 I Refuse to be Vaccinated........................................................154 Manipulation Without Shame or Dignity................................155 Number of People Died Within 21 Days of Having COVID-19 Vaccine in England Between January and June 2021..................156 Pharmacovigilance Investigation Concerning Janssen Covid-19 Vaccine.........................................................................156 If It Works Perfectly is Going to Take a Decade.....................157 Chapter 10 Every Year People Catch The Flu...........................................160 Is Just Like the Common Flu..................................................161 Flu Season Didn’t Happen Last Year in Canada.....................163 Australia Is Currently Reporting “Historically Low Levels” of Influenza..................................................................................163 Two-in-One Vaccine Booster Shot that Protects Against Both Covid-19 and the Seasonal Flu....................................................164 Australia Deaths Due to Influenza 2017.................................165 Australia Deaths Due to “Covid-19” 2020-2021....................166 Covid Will Eventually Become Like the Common cold.........167 Least We Forget The Medical Trade HIV (AIDS) Virus Pandemic......................................................................................168 Influenza Vaccine A Failed Vaccine........................................171 How to Treat Yourself Coronavirus (COVID-19) at Home, Just Like the Flu...........................................................................172 Chapter 11 The Muddy Foundations, or a Sand Castle Called “Genetic Medicine”.....................................................................................173 Medical Trade so-called “Gene Therapies” + “Viruses” Farce.............................................................................................174 National Institutes of Health (NIH).........................................175 The Final Words......................................................................176 Annex 1. Letter to Sir Simon Stevens, CEO of the NHS England 2. SAGE COVID-19 Register of Participants' Interests - GOV.UK Index 179

Download or read book Determinants of the Number of Deaths from COVID 19 written by Magali Valero and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study the factors that affect the number of coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths among low-income and high-income countries. Low-income countries report a significantly lower average number of deaths at 20 and 40 days post the first five deaths compared to high-income countries. We focus on factors that affect either the speed of transmission from susceptible to infected or the probability that an infected person dies. We then use the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to examine the sources of the differences in the average number of deaths between the two groups. We show that community mobility and the easiness of carrying the virus from one place to another, measured with the number of international arrivals, are significant factors affecting the number of deaths, while the governability of the population and life expectancy are only significant in high-income countries. Higher health expenditure and lower death rates are associated with more deaths in low-income countries. The differences in the number of deaths between the two groups can be linked to differences in the transportation infrastructure (number of arrivals), the shadow economy and life expectancy. Our study shows that mobility measures taken by individuals to limit the spread of the virus are important to prevent deaths in both high- and low-income countries. Additionally, our results suggest low-income countries with weak health institutions underestimate the number of deaths from COVID-19, compared to high-income countries. The underestimation of COVID-19 deaths could be affecting a great number of people in poverty in low-income economies.

Download or read book The Viral Underclass written by Steven W. Thrasher and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION** **LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE** **WINNER OF THE 2022 POZ AWARD FOR BEST IN LITERATURE** "An irresistibly readable and humane exploration of the barbarities of class...readers are gifted that most precious of things in these muddled times: a clear lens through which to see the world." —Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society. Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and that the ways in which viruses spread, kill, and take their toll are much more dependent on social structures than they are on biology alone. Told through the heart-rending stories of friends, activists, and teachers navigating the novel coronavirus, HIV, and other viruses, Dr. Thrasher brings the reader with him as he delves into the viral underclass and lays bare its inner workings. In the tradition of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste and Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, The Viral Underclass helps us understand the world more deeply by showing the fraught relationship between privilege and survival.

Download or read book Influenza written by Jeremy Brown and published by Thorndike Press Large Print. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 100th anniversary of the pandemic of 1918, Jeremy Brown, veteran ER doctor and Director of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health, explores the troubling and complex history of the flu virus. He breaks down the current dialogue about the disease, explaining the controversy over vaccinations, antiviral drugs, and the federal government's role in preparing for pandemic outbreaks. Influenza is an enlightening and unnerving look at a deadly virus that has been around longer than people and may be for many more years before we are able to conquer it for good.

Download or read book Scarred But Wiser written by Michael Lokshin and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper formalizes and tests the hypothesis that greater exposure to big shocks induces stronger societal responses for adaptation and protection from future big shocks. We find support for this hypothesis in various strands of the literature and in new empirical tests using cross-country data on deaths due to COVID-19 and deaths during World War 2. Countries with higher death rates in the war saw lower death rates in the first wave of the COVID pandemic, though the effect faded in the pandemic's second wave. Our tests are robust to a wide range of model specifications and alternative assumptions.

Download or read book The Covid 19 Epidemic In China written by Lawrence Juen-yee Lau and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains an in-depth quantitative analysis of the development of the COVID-19 epidemic in China from its very beginning in December 2019 to early April 2020 when it was brought under control. It begins with adjustments of the official cumulative data on newly confirmed cases and deaths, removing any inconsistencies and smoothing the surges not attributable directly to the COVID-19 virus itself. It discusses the measures undertaken by the Chinese Government to control the epidemic. It examines the extent of the infection, the case mortality, and the costs to the Chinese economy in both Hubei, the province in which the first confirmed case was discovered, and the rest of the Mainland outside of Hubei. There is also an international comparison of the Chinese experience with those of other countries.

Download or read book Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism written by Anne Case and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year A New Statesman Book to Read From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class Deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of American lives. Anne Case and Angus Deaton explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class. As the college educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a degree are literally dying from pain and despair. Case and Deaton tie the crisis to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and a rapacious health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages into the pockets of the wealthy. This critically important book paints a troubling portrait of the American dream in decline, and provides solutions that can rein in capitalism's excesses and make it work for everyone.

Download or read book State of the States Two months of the pandemic written by Oommen C. Kurian and published by Observer Research Foundation. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on 11 March 2020. Two months on, no country in the world has clear daily numbers on how many people are truly infected with the coronavirus or how many have died because of it. The available numbers—particularly recorded cases—remain gross underestimates, including in India. However, India has not yet seen widespread transmission. At over 80,000 cases and around 2,700 deaths, even after accounting for the low number of tests per million people, India’s numbers remain much lower than what many experts had predicted at the beginning of the outbreak. India is not an outlier. The world is struggling to understand why the spread and devastation of the COVID-19 virus has been less than anticipated in many large countries. Of the ten most populous countries, which make up 60 percent of the world population, only three—the US, Brazil and Russia—have total confirmed cases per million people higher than the global average. When it comes to deaths per million people, eight out of ten most populous countries (barring the US and Brazil) have an average lower than the global average. The pandemic is still in the early stages and, like what happened with Brazil, a surge is expected in many large countries, including India, as restrictions imposed by the lockdowns are eased. However, even when more intensive transmission of the virus may be inevitable, the current spread among the Indian population seems limited inside certain states like Maharashtra and Gujarat, where positive cases per tests conducted remain high and climbing. Given this context, this report presents the state-level situation—tracking the broad risks that the population is faced with, the overall preparedness of the health system, the spread of the virus over the last two months in terms of morbidity and mortality, the expansion of testing and the response on several fronts by the state governments.

Download or read book Pandemic Outbreaks in the 21st Century written by Buddolla Viswanath and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past two decades, several pandemics have ravaged the globe, giving us several lessons on infectious disease epidemiology, the importance of initial detection and characterization of outbreak viruses, the importance of viral epidemic prevention steps, and the importance of modern vaccines. Pandemic Outbreaks in the Twenty-First Century: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Prevention, and Treatment summarizes the improvements in the 21st century to overcome / prevent / treat global pandemic with future prospective. Divided into 9 chapters, the book begins with an in-depth introduction to the lessons learned from the first pandemic of the 21st century. It describes the history, present and future in terms of detection, prevention and treatment. Followed by chapters on the outbreak, treatment strategies and clinical management of several infectious diseases like MERS, SARD and COVID 19, Pandemic Outbreaks in the Twenty-First Century: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Prevention, and Treatment, presents chapters on immunotherapies and vaccine technologies to combat pandemic outbreak and challenges. The book finishes with a chapter on the current knowledge and technology to control pandemic outbreaks. All are presented in a practical short format, making this volume a valuable resource for very broad academic audience. Provides insight to the lessons learned from past pandemics Gives recommendations, future direction in terms of detection, prevention and treatment of pandemics Guides readers through the status and recent developments of vaccines to overcome or prevent pandemics Shows how to enhance the host innate immunity in infectious diseases Includes a chapter on immunotherapies to combat pandemic outbreaks

Download or read book Understanding Coronavirus written by Raul Rabadan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the identification of the first cases of the coronavirus in December 2019, there has been a significant amount of confusion regarding the origin and spread of the so-called 'coronavirus', SARS-CoV-2, and the cause of the disease COVID-19. Conflicting messages from the media and officials across different countries and organizations, the abundance of disparate sources of information, unfounded conspiracy theories on the origins of the virus, unproven therapies, and inconsistent public health measures, have all served to increase anxiety in the population. Where did the virus come from? How is it transmitted? How does it cause disease? Is it like flu? What is a pandemic? In this concise and accessible introduction, a leading expert provides answers to these commonly asked questions. This revised and updated edition now also covers how the virus mutates, how important these mutations are, how vaccines work, and what we can expect in the near and long-term future.

Download or read book Two Pandemic Deaths written by John Corral and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story that begins this collection of short fiction pieces is not true. Well, it is not entirely untrue. It was written after the loss of a dear friend, to whom it is dedicated. The sentiments expressed there are also, to some degree, present in the other stories offered here. They were written in somewhat the same melancholy mood. But let that not deter you. For great loss, there must have been great love first, that expands and fills the heart and then breaks the very thing it filled, leaving a hole that may never be fixed.