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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.
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.
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