Bibliograph

Roads to COVID-19 containment and spread, Leon Robertson

Type

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Roads to COVID-19 containment and spread, Leon Robertson

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Roads to COVID-19 containment and spread

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Leon Robertson

Summary

Eight democratic countries traversed the road to remarkable containment of COVID-19 in 2020-2021, five without economically damaging shutdowns. During the first two years of the pandemic, the United States and the United Kingdom each had COVID-19 death rates per population 6 times higher than any one of these eight countries and more than 135 times the best. Why? This book reveals successes and mistakes in science, governmental policies, and politics that vastly altered the incidence and severity of COVID-19 in different parts of the world. The author explains his research in a near conversational, human-focused approach understandable to nonscientists. The topics range from the nature of coronaviruses to the economic consequences of the pandemic. The movement toward a "new normal" of living with the virus is dangerous, he writes. Without recognition of governmental policy failures and implementation of new science-based policies, periodic surges in infections will continue and more lethal mutations cannot be ruled out

Target audience

adult

Classification