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The COVID-19 Catastrophe : What's Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again
Paperback Edition: 1
In this short and hard-hitting book, Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinizes the actions that governments around the world took—and failed to take—as the virus spread from its origins in Wuhan to the global pandemic that it is today. He shows that many Western governments and their scientific advisors made assumptions about the virus and its lethality that turned out to be mistaken. Valuable time was lost while the virus spread unchecked, leaving health systems unprepared for the avalanche of infections that followed. Drawing on his own scientific and medical expertise, Horton outlines the measures that need to be put in place, at both national and international levels, to prevent this kind of catastrophe from happening again.
Pages : 140
Publisher : Polity Press
Publication date : 2020-06-18
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in the UK, Medicine, Health And Personal Development, Medicine, Public Health Medicine