'Excellent . . . analyses clearly and authoritatively how the
coronavirus pandemic played out, what governments should have done,
and what we need to do when it happens again - as it undoubtedly
will' Financial Times 'You could not hope for a better guide to the
pandemic world order than Debora MacKenzie, who's been on this
story from the start. This is an authoritative yet readable
explanation of how this catastrophe happened - and more important,
how it will happen again if we don't change' Tim Harford, author of
The Undercover Economist, Adapt and Messy 'This definitely deserves
a read - the first of the post mortems by a writer who knows what
she's talking about' Laura Spinney, author of Pale Rider: The
Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World In a gripping,
accessible narrative, a veteran science journalist lays out the
shocking story of how the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic happened
and how to make sure this never happens again Over the last 30
years of epidemics and pandemics, we learned every lesson needed to
stop this coronavirus outbreak in its tracks. We heeded almost none
of them. The result is a pandemic on a scale never before seen in
our lifetimes. In this captivating, authoritative, and eye-opening
book, science journalist Debora MacKenzie lays out the full story
of how and why it happened: the previous viruses that should have
prepared us, the shocking public health failures that paved the
way, the failure to contain the outbreak, and most importantly,
what we must do to prevent future pandemics. Debora MacKenzie has
been reporting on emerging diseases for more than three decades,
and she draws on that experience to explain how COVID-19 went from
a potentially manageable outbreak to a global pandemic. Offering a
compelling history of the most significant recent outbreaks,
including SARS, MERS, H1N1, Zika, and Ebola, she gives a crash
course in Epidemiology 101--how viruses spread and how pandemics
end--and outlines the lessons we failed to learn from each past
crisis. In vivid detail, she takes us through the arrival and
spread of COVID-19, making clear the steps that governments knew
they could have taken to prevent or at least prepare for this.
Looking forward, MacKenzie makes a bold, optimistic argument: this
pandemic might finally galvanize the world to take viruses
seriously. Fighting this pandemic and preventing the next one will
take political action of all kinds, globally, from governments, the
scientific community, and individuals--but it is possible. No one
has yet brought together our knowledge of COVID-19 in a
comprehensive, informative, and accessible way. But that story can
already be told, and Debora MacKenzie's urgent telling is required
reading for these times and beyond. It is too early to say where
the COVID-19 pandemic will go, but it is past time to talk about
what went wrong and how we can do better.
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