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Author
Publisher
Tiller Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
For readers of Mary Roach and Adam Diamond, an innovative look at the histories of different epidemics and what it meant for society, alongside what lessons different diseases have to teach us as society battles the novel Coronavirus--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Deftly weaving finance, politics, business, and the global human experience into one tight narrative, a tour-de-force account of 2020, the year that changed everything--from the acclaimed author of Crashed. The shocks of 2020 have been great and small, disrupting the world economy, international relations and the daily lives of virtually everyone on the planet. Never before has the entire world economy contracted by 20 percent in a matter of weeks...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Senator Rand Paul was on to Anthony Fauci from the start. Wielding previously unimaginable power, Fauci misled the country about the origins of the Covid pandemic and shut down scientific dissent. One of the few leaders who dared to challenge "America's Doctor" was Senator Rand Paul, himself a physician. Deception is his indictment of the catastrophic failures of the public health bureaucracy during the pandemic. Senator Paul presents the evidence...
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This book is based on over one hundred studies in the peer-reviewed literature that consider vaccinated versus unvaccinated populations. Each study is analyzed, and health differences among infants, children, and adults who have been vaccinated and those who have not are presented and put in context"--
Practitioners have given vaccines to children and adults since Dr. Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine in 1796. Since the enactment of the...
66) Sharing a smile
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Sophie is feeling a bit worried about the world and going outside lately means wearing a mask, but she realizes she is not the only one who feels a little scared and decides to spread a small act of kindness in her neighborhood.
Author
Publisher
Blair
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"Ayudantes en COVID-19 brinda una explicación objetiva pero optimista de la pandemia de coronavirus. Este cuento asegura a los chicos que muchas personas, incluyendo niños, están ayudando a combatir el virus que se diseminó por el mundo en 2020." --Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A metropolis with a population of about 11 million, Wuhan sits at the crossroads of China. It was here that in the last days of 2019, the first reports of a mysterious new form of pneumonia emerged. Before long, an abrupt and unprecedented lockdown was declared-the first of many such responses to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. This book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city's own people. Using...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Whether we start from the pandemic, climate change, the inequality engendered by capitalism, the violence of racism and sexism, or any of a number of global crises, it is apparent that we are far from any idea of a common world, a world that is a site of belonging. Such a world would require a fundamental transformation of how we understand value--that everyone's life has value beyond market value and that the world is structured to facilitate everyone's...
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"People from around the world reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine through poetry ... In March 2021, the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and the University of Arizona Poetry Center launched the website for the Global Vaccine Poem project, inviting anyone to share experiences of the pandemic and vaccination through poetry. Dear Vaccine features selections from over 2,000 poetry submissions to the project, which come from all 50...
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The stories I have chosen reflect where I feel the field of science and nature writing has landed, and where it could go," Ed Yong writes in his introduction. "They are often full of tragedy, sometimes laced with wonder, but always deeply aware that science does not exist in a social vacuum. They are beautiful, whether in their clarity of ideas, the elegance of their prose, or often both." The essays in this year's Best American Science and Nature...
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives.As the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if, and what, they were writing under quarantine. Overwhelmed by the response, the onetime...
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The former head of Obamacare presents an inside account of the US's failed response to the Coronavirus pandemic, chronicling what he saw and how much could have been prevented, and investigating the cultural, political and economic drivers that led to unnecessary loss of life.
Author
Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A riveting, fast-paced, inside look at one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history, Moonshot recounts the intensive nine months in 2020 when the scientists at Pfizer, under the visionary leadership of Dr. Albert Bourla, made "the impossible possible"--creating, testing, and manufacturing a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine that previously would have taken years to develop. Dr. Bourla chronicles how the brilliant, dedicated...
76) American crisis
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Governor Andrew Cuomo tells the riveting story of how he took charge in the fight against COVID-19 as New York became the epicenter of the pandemic, offering hard-won lessons in leadership and his vision for the path forward."--
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The current crisis is not like 2008 or even 1929. The new depression that has emerged from the COVID pandemic is the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. Most fired employees will remain redundant. Bankruptcies will be common, and banks will buckle under the weight of bad debts. Deflation, debt, and demography will wreck any chance of recovery, and social disorder will follow closely on the heels of market chaos. The happy talk from Wall Street...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 2020, the world experienced massive change. Millions of lives were upended by the Covid-19 pandemic. The shocking police killings of Black men and women gave rise to powerful social movements and widespread collective action to rectify centuries of injustice and racism. Together, these colossal events tested the resilience of the social fabric bringing us all together. Attempting to illuminate and make sense of this new reality, artists from around...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Public health expert Leana Wen gives an insider's account of public health and its crucial role -- from opioid addiction to global pandemic -- and tells an inspiring story of her journey from homeless immigrant to being named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Urano
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
Español
Description
"¿Nos libraremos del coronavirus para siempre? De no ser así, ¿cómo vamos a convivir con él? ¿Serán las pandemias más frecuentes a partir de ahora? ¿Dónde deberíamos vivir? ¿Deberíamos almacenar alimentos y bienes de primera necesidad? El doctor Sanjay Gupta, principal asesor médico de la cadena de televisión CNN y figura de referencia en las redes para millones de estadounidenses durante el confinamiento, ha seguido el avance de la...
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