Author: Rhys Ryan Evans
Publisher: Rhys Ryan Evans
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
At first it was thought to be just a bad case of flu spreading around but for sure it was not! People always get sick from time to time and that was a fact, Bad cold, the flu or something similar, This time it was something a lot worse, Too many people were getting sick, very sick, too fat, Strong headaches, no energy, bloodshot eyes, dizziness, dry coughing that won’t go away, tiredness, loss of taste and smell, stomach problems, all the signs of flu symptoms but this wasn’t flu, it was something else, Something a lot stronger than flu, or influenza or any other related illnesses, Further later symptoms people developed, such as, nausea, bowel problems, tightness in the chest, problems in breathing leading to death, More and more people caught the illness confusing everyone, The government announced it to be some virus that was unknown over the weeks, too late was the announcement, The world medical health association found out and started to ask questions what was going on, China seemed to be lenient to tell all, this was reported down the chain and investigated further, Chinese Scientist’s worked hard to investigate the new virus, 2 Many hundreds of people caught the virus and died in a short period of time, this soon turned to thousands, taken into hospital to be put on breathing ventilators to try and help them breath, mostly they died, handfuls of people fought the virus with the help of the breathing ventilators, they were kept in intensive care and monitored, they too passed away in the end, This virus spread around ninety percent of China very quickly. The Chinese government made quick rules for their people and passed their developments to the world medical association who were not too happy with the slowness of China’s reports, Bid decisions were being made behind closed doors. Weeks passed, China reported thousands of deaths to other foreign governments as they should of a lot sooner, Quarantine levels were put in place too late, Lock down rules were taken on, Chinese soldiers were used to disinfect the streets, United nations met as quickly as they could and dammed China for this new virus that come from their country, The virus was now spreading across Eastern Asia and leaking into Europe. It was discovered, leaked out that this virus had been spreading around China for weeks, could be months, it wasn’t proven, some government officials said, could have been longer, who knows others talked about, It became very messy, Countries governments talked and talked strongly together to try and find out what exactly what was going on, 3 China announced from their scientists results what they had discovered about the virus, They informed it was a pandemic, not air born, spread around from human to human, coughing, sneezing, talking to close to another person could pass on the virus, China called the virus, Covid-19, another type of Corona virus, They informed it was much stronger than past virus’s the world had already encountered and was continually investigating them, this was also known to many countries’ leaders. The world health association was not impressed and demanded, there was little reply from China just their reports on other viruses they had been working on. Uk government officials along with the world health organisation had in depth behind closed doors trying to get to grips with this new virus and what exactly was its strength, China still talked behind clouds informing that It was not their fault and that it would blow over, It was not the case as more and more cases were discovered around the world, UK’s prime minister held instance cabinet meetings trying to get to grips with this new virus and preparing what to tell the nation, Little was told and was told to late many people thought, but that was, always is the case with the government in the UK many people have commented in the past.
So now you have seen covid 19
Author: Rhys Ryan Evans
Publisher: Rhys Ryan Evans
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
At first it was thought to be just a bad case of flu spreading around but for sure it was not! People always get sick from time to time and that was a fact, Bad cold, the flu or something similar, This time it was something a lot worse, Too many people were getting sick, very sick, too fat, Strong headaches, no energy, bloodshot eyes, dizziness, dry coughing that won’t go away, tiredness, loss of taste and smell, stomach problems, all the signs of flu symptoms but this wasn’t flu, it was something else, Something a lot stronger than flu, or influenza or any other related illnesses, Further later symptoms people developed, such as, nausea, bowel problems, tightness in the chest, problems in breathing leading to death, More and more people caught the illness confusing everyone, The government announced it to be some virus that was unknown over the weeks, too late was the announcement, The world medical health association found out and started to ask questions what was going on, China seemed to be lenient to tell all, this was reported down the chain and investigated further, Chinese Scientist’s worked hard to investigate the new virus, 2 Many hundreds of people caught the virus and died in a short period of time, this soon turned to thousands, taken into hospital to be put on breathing ventilators to try and help them breath, mostly they died, handfuls of people fought the virus with the help of the breathing ventilators, they were kept in intensive care and monitored, they too passed away in the end, This virus spread around ninety percent of China very quickly. The Chinese government made quick rules for their people and passed their developments to the world medical association who were not too happy with the slowness of China’s reports, Bid decisions were being made behind closed doors. Weeks passed, China reported thousands of deaths to other foreign governments as they should of a lot sooner, Quarantine levels were put in place too late, Lock down rules were taken on, Chinese soldiers were used to disinfect the streets, United nations met as quickly as they could and dammed China for this new virus that come from their country, The virus was now spreading across Eastern Asia and leaking into Europe. It was discovered, leaked out that this virus had been spreading around China for weeks, could be months, it wasn’t proven, some government officials said, could have been longer, who knows others talked about, It became very messy, Countries governments talked and talked strongly together to try and find out what exactly what was going on, 3 China announced from their scientists results what they had discovered about the virus, They informed it was a pandemic, not air born, spread around from human to human, coughing, sneezing, talking to close to another person could pass on the virus, China called the virus, Covid-19, another type of Corona virus, They informed it was much stronger than past virus’s the world had already encountered and was continually investigating them, this was also known to many countries’ leaders. The world health association was not impressed and demanded, there was little reply from China just their reports on other viruses they had been working on. Uk government officials along with the world health organisation had in depth behind closed doors trying to get to grips with this new virus and what exactly was its strength, China still talked behind clouds informing that It was not their fault and that it would blow over, It was not the case as more and more cases were discovered around the world, UK’s prime minister held instance cabinet meetings trying to get to grips with this new virus and preparing what to tell the nation, Little was told and was told to late many people thought, but that was, always is the case with the government in the UK many people have commented in the past.
Publisher: Rhys Ryan Evans
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
At first it was thought to be just a bad case of flu spreading around but for sure it was not! People always get sick from time to time and that was a fact, Bad cold, the flu or something similar, This time it was something a lot worse, Too many people were getting sick, very sick, too fat, Strong headaches, no energy, bloodshot eyes, dizziness, dry coughing that won’t go away, tiredness, loss of taste and smell, stomach problems, all the signs of flu symptoms but this wasn’t flu, it was something else, Something a lot stronger than flu, or influenza or any other related illnesses, Further later symptoms people developed, such as, nausea, bowel problems, tightness in the chest, problems in breathing leading to death, More and more people caught the illness confusing everyone, The government announced it to be some virus that was unknown over the weeks, too late was the announcement, The world medical health association found out and started to ask questions what was going on, China seemed to be lenient to tell all, this was reported down the chain and investigated further, Chinese Scientist’s worked hard to investigate the new virus, 2 Many hundreds of people caught the virus and died in a short period of time, this soon turned to thousands, taken into hospital to be put on breathing ventilators to try and help them breath, mostly they died, handfuls of people fought the virus with the help of the breathing ventilators, they were kept in intensive care and monitored, they too passed away in the end, This virus spread around ninety percent of China very quickly. The Chinese government made quick rules for their people and passed their developments to the world medical association who were not too happy with the slowness of China’s reports, Bid decisions were being made behind closed doors. Weeks passed, China reported thousands of deaths to other foreign governments as they should of a lot sooner, Quarantine levels were put in place too late, Lock down rules were taken on, Chinese soldiers were used to disinfect the streets, United nations met as quickly as they could and dammed China for this new virus that come from their country, The virus was now spreading across Eastern Asia and leaking into Europe. It was discovered, leaked out that this virus had been spreading around China for weeks, could be months, it wasn’t proven, some government officials said, could have been longer, who knows others talked about, It became very messy, Countries governments talked and talked strongly together to try and find out what exactly what was going on, 3 China announced from their scientists results what they had discovered about the virus, They informed it was a pandemic, not air born, spread around from human to human, coughing, sneezing, talking to close to another person could pass on the virus, China called the virus, Covid-19, another type of Corona virus, They informed it was much stronger than past virus’s the world had already encountered and was continually investigating them, this was also known to many countries’ leaders. The world health association was not impressed and demanded, there was little reply from China just their reports on other viruses they had been working on. Uk government officials along with the world health organisation had in depth behind closed doors trying to get to grips with this new virus and what exactly was its strength, China still talked behind clouds informing that It was not their fault and that it would blow over, It was not the case as more and more cases were discovered around the world, UK’s prime minister held instance cabinet meetings trying to get to grips with this new virus and preparing what to tell the nation, Little was told and was told to late many people thought, but that was, always is the case with the government in the UK many people have commented in the past.
The Great Realization
Author: Tomos Roberts (Tomfoolery)
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063066386
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Selected by Today as a book "to ease kids’ anxiety about coronavirus.” We all need hope. Humans have an extraordinary capacity to battle through adversity, but only if they have something to cling onto: a belief or hope that maybe, one day, things will be better. This idea sparked The Great Realization. Sharing the truths we may find hard to tell but also celebrating the things—from simple acts of kindness and finding joy in everyday activities, to the creativity within us all—that have brought us together during lockdown, it gives us hope in this time of global crisis. Written for his younger brother and sister in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Tomos Roberts’s heartfelt poem is as timely as it is timeless. Its message of hope and resilience, of rebirth and renewal, has captured the hearts of children and adults all over the globe—and the glimpse it offers of a fairer, kinder, more sustainable world continues to inspire thousands every day. With Tomos Roberts’s heartfelt poem and beautiful illustrations by award-winning artist Nomoco, The Great Realization is a profound work, at once striking and reassuring, reminding readers young and old that in the face of adversity there are still dreams to be dreamt and kindnesses to be shared and hope. There is still hope. We now call it The Great Realization and, yes, since then there have been many. But that’s the story of how it started . . . and why hindsight’s 2020.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063066386
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Selected by Today as a book "to ease kids’ anxiety about coronavirus.” We all need hope. Humans have an extraordinary capacity to battle through adversity, but only if they have something to cling onto: a belief or hope that maybe, one day, things will be better. This idea sparked The Great Realization. Sharing the truths we may find hard to tell but also celebrating the things—from simple acts of kindness and finding joy in everyday activities, to the creativity within us all—that have brought us together during lockdown, it gives us hope in this time of global crisis. Written for his younger brother and sister in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Tomos Roberts’s heartfelt poem is as timely as it is timeless. Its message of hope and resilience, of rebirth and renewal, has captured the hearts of children and adults all over the globe—and the glimpse it offers of a fairer, kinder, more sustainable world continues to inspire thousands every day. With Tomos Roberts’s heartfelt poem and beautiful illustrations by award-winning artist Nomoco, The Great Realization is a profound work, at once striking and reassuring, reminding readers young and old that in the face of adversity there are still dreams to be dreamt and kindnesses to be shared and hope. There is still hope. We now call it The Great Realization and, yes, since then there have been many. But that’s the story of how it started . . . and why hindsight’s 2020.
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Author: Bill Gates
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593534492
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Governments, businesses, and individuals around the world are thinking about what happens after the COVID-19 pandemic. Can we hope to not only ward off another COVID-like disaster but also eliminate all respiratory diseases, including the flu? Bill Gates, one of our greatest and most effective thinkers and activists, believes the answer is yes. The author of the #1 New York Times best seller How to Avoid a Climate Disaster lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should have learned from COVID-19 and what all of us can do to ward off another catastrophe like it. Relying on the shared knowledge of the world’s foremost experts and on his own experience of combating fatal diseases through the Gates Foundation, Gates first helps us understand the science of infectious diseases. Then he shows us how the nations of the world, working in conjunction with one another and with the private sector, how we can prevent a new pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy. Here is a clarion call—strong, comprehensive, and of the gravest importance.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593534492
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Governments, businesses, and individuals around the world are thinking about what happens after the COVID-19 pandemic. Can we hope to not only ward off another COVID-like disaster but also eliminate all respiratory diseases, including the flu? Bill Gates, one of our greatest and most effective thinkers and activists, believes the answer is yes. The author of the #1 New York Times best seller How to Avoid a Climate Disaster lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should have learned from COVID-19 and what all of us can do to ward off another catastrophe like it. Relying on the shared knowledge of the world’s foremost experts and on his own experience of combating fatal diseases through the Gates Foundation, Gates first helps us understand the science of infectious diseases. Then he shows us how the nations of the world, working in conjunction with one another and with the private sector, how we can prevent a new pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy. Here is a clarion call—strong, comprehensive, and of the gravest importance.
Option B
Author: Sheryl Sandberg
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1524732699
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life’s inevitable setbacks After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. “I was in ‘the void,’” she writes, “a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.” Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build. Option B combines Sheryl’s personal insights with Adam’s eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity. Beginning with the gut-wrenching moment when she finds her husband, Dave Goldberg, collapsed on a gym floor, Sheryl opens up her heart—and her journal—to describe the acute grief and isolation she felt in the wake of his death. But Option B goes beyond Sheryl’s loss to explore how a broad range of people have overcome hardships including illness, job loss, sexual assault, natural disasters, and the violence of war. Their stories reveal the capacity of the human spirit to persevere . . . and to rediscover joy. Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. Even after the most devastating events, it is possible to grow by finding deeper meaning and gaining greater appreciation in our lives. Option B illuminates how to help others in crisis, develop compassion for ourselves, raise strong children, and create resilient families, communities, and workplaces. Many of these lessons can be applied to everyday struggles, allowing us to brave whatever lies ahead. Two weeks after losing her husband, Sheryl was preparing for a father-child activity. “I want Dave,” she cried. Her friend replied, “Option A is not available,” and then promised to help her make the most of Option B. We all live some form of Option B. This book will help us all make the most of it.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1524732699
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life’s inevitable setbacks After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. “I was in ‘the void,’” she writes, “a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.” Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build. Option B combines Sheryl’s personal insights with Adam’s eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity. Beginning with the gut-wrenching moment when she finds her husband, Dave Goldberg, collapsed on a gym floor, Sheryl opens up her heart—and her journal—to describe the acute grief and isolation she felt in the wake of his death. But Option B goes beyond Sheryl’s loss to explore how a broad range of people have overcome hardships including illness, job loss, sexual assault, natural disasters, and the violence of war. Their stories reveal the capacity of the human spirit to persevere . . . and to rediscover joy. Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. Even after the most devastating events, it is possible to grow by finding deeper meaning and gaining greater appreciation in our lives. Option B illuminates how to help others in crisis, develop compassion for ourselves, raise strong children, and create resilient families, communities, and workplaces. Many of these lessons can be applied to everyday struggles, allowing us to brave whatever lies ahead. Two weeks after losing her husband, Sheryl was preparing for a father-child activity. “I want Dave,” she cried. Her friend replied, “Option A is not available,” and then promised to help her make the most of Option B. We all live some form of Option B. This book will help us all make the most of it.
The Sinner's Guide to Natural Family Planning
Author: Simcha Fisher
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN: 9781612787879
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
If you've tried Natural Family Planning and have discovered that your life is now awful - or if you feel judged or judgey, or if you trust NFP but your doctor doesn't, or if you're just trying to figure out how the heck to have a sex life that is holy but still human - you'll find comfort, encouragement, honesty, wit, and, most important, practical advice in The Sinner's Guide to NFP.
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN: 9781612787879
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
If you've tried Natural Family Planning and have discovered that your life is now awful - or if you feel judged or judgey, or if you trust NFP but your doctor doesn't, or if you're just trying to figure out how the heck to have a sex life that is holy but still human - you'll find comfort, encouragement, honesty, wit, and, most important, practical advice in The Sinner's Guide to NFP.
Global Trends 2040
Author: National Intelligence Council
Publisher: Cosimo Reports
ISBN: 9781646794973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Publisher: Cosimo Reports
ISBN: 9781646794973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Every Minute Is a Day
Author: Robert Meyer, MD
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0593238591
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
An urgent, on-the-scene account of chaos and compassion on the front lines of ground zero for Covid-19, from a senior doctor at New York City’s busiest emergency room “Remarkable and inspiring . . . We’re lucky to have this vivid firsthand account.”—A. J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically When former New York Times journalist Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being overwhelmed, where do you think you are? Koeppel asked. Meyer’s grave reply—100—was merely the cusp of the crisis that would soon touch every part of the globe. In need of an outlet to process the trauma of his working life over the coming months, Meyer continued to update Koeppel with what he’d seen and whom he’d treated. The result is an intimate record of historic turmoil and grief from the perspective of a remarkably resilient ER doctor. Every Minute Is a Day takes us into a hospital ravaged by Covid-19 and is filled with the stories of promises made that may be impossible to keep, of life or death choices for patients and their families, and of selflessness on the part of medical professionals who put themselves at incalculable risk. As fast-paced and high-tempo as the ER in which it takes place, Every Minute Is a Day is at its core an incomparable firsthand account of unrelenting compassion, and a reminder that every human life deserves a chance to be saved.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0593238591
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
An urgent, on-the-scene account of chaos and compassion on the front lines of ground zero for Covid-19, from a senior doctor at New York City’s busiest emergency room “Remarkable and inspiring . . . We’re lucky to have this vivid firsthand account.”—A. J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically When former New York Times journalist Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being overwhelmed, where do you think you are? Koeppel asked. Meyer’s grave reply—100—was merely the cusp of the crisis that would soon touch every part of the globe. In need of an outlet to process the trauma of his working life over the coming months, Meyer continued to update Koeppel with what he’d seen and whom he’d treated. The result is an intimate record of historic turmoil and grief from the perspective of a remarkably resilient ER doctor. Every Minute Is a Day takes us into a hospital ravaged by Covid-19 and is filled with the stories of promises made that may be impossible to keep, of life or death choices for patients and their families, and of selflessness on the part of medical professionals who put themselves at incalculable risk. As fast-paced and high-tempo as the ER in which it takes place, Every Minute Is a Day is at its core an incomparable firsthand account of unrelenting compassion, and a reminder that every human life deserves a chance to be saved.
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Author: Fareed Zakaria
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393542149
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come? Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. Written in the form of ten "lessons," covering topics from natural and biological risks to the rise of "digital life" to an emerging bipolar world order, Zakaria helps readers to begin thinking beyond the immediate effects of COVID-19. Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World speaks to past, present, and future, and, while urgent and timely, is sure to become an enduring reflection on life in the early twenty-first century.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393542149
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come? Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. Written in the form of ten "lessons," covering topics from natural and biological risks to the rise of "digital life" to an emerging bipolar world order, Zakaria helps readers to begin thinking beyond the immediate effects of COVID-19. Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World speaks to past, present, and future, and, while urgent and timely, is sure to become an enduring reflection on life in the early twenty-first century.
Tightrope
Author: Nicholas D. Kristof
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525564179
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. This must-read book from the authors of Half the Sky “shows how we can and must do better” (Katie Couric). "A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."—Tara Westover, author of Educated Drawing us deep into an “other America,” the authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the people with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon. It’s an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About a quarter of the children on Kristof’s old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. While these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525564179
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. This must-read book from the authors of Half the Sky “shows how we can and must do better” (Katie Couric). "A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."—Tara Westover, author of Educated Drawing us deep into an “other America,” the authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the people with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon. It’s an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About a quarter of the children on Kristof’s old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. While these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore.
Preventing the Next Pandemic
Author: Peter J. Hotez
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421440385
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The last five years saw a significant return of epidemic infectious disease, culminating in COVID-19. In our new post–COVID-19 world, how do we prevent future illnesses by expanding scientific and vaccine diplomacy and cooperation, especially to combat the problems that humans have brought on ourselves? Modern diseases and viruses have been spurred anew by war and conflict as well as shifting poverty, urbanization, climate change, and a new troubling anti-science/anti-vaccination outlook. From such twenty-first-century forces, we have seen declines in previous global health gains, with sharp increases in vaccine-preventable and neglected diseases on the Arabian Peninsula, in Venezuela, in parts of Africa, and even on the Gulf Coast of the United States. In Preventing the Next Pandemic, international vaccine scientist and tropical disease and coronavirus expert Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, argues that we can—and must—rely on vaccine diplomacy to address this new world order in disease and global health. Detailing his years in the lab developing new vaccines, Hotez also recounts his travels around the world to shape vaccine partnerships with people in countries both rich and poor in an attempt to head off major health problems. Building on the legacy of Dr. Albert Sabin, who developed the oral polio vaccine with Soviet scientists at the height of the Cold War, he explains how he is still working to refresh and redirect vaccine diplomacy toward neglected and newly emerging diseases. Hotez reveals how—during his Obama-era tenure as the US Science Envoy for the Middle East and North Africa, which coincided with both the rise in these geopolitical forces and climate change—he witnessed tropical infectious diseases and established vaccine partnerships that may still combat them up close. He explores why, since 2015, we've seen the decline of global cooperation and cohesion, to the detriment of those programs that are meant to benefit the most vulnerable people in the world. Unfortunately, Hotez asserts, these negative global events kick off a never-ending loop. Problems in a country may lead to disease outbreaks, but those outbreaks can lead to further problems—such as the impact of coronavirus on China's society and economy, which has been felt around the globe. Zeroing in on the sociopolitical and environmental factors that drive our most controversial and pressing global health concerns, Hotez proposes historically proven methods to soothe fraught international relations while preparing us for a safer, healthier future. He hammers home the importance of public engagement to communicate the urgency of embracing science during troubled times. Touching on a range of disease, from leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis, and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) to COVID-19, Preventing the Next Pandemic has always been a timely goal, but it will be even more important in a COVID and post-COVID world.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421440385
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The last five years saw a significant return of epidemic infectious disease, culminating in COVID-19. In our new post–COVID-19 world, how do we prevent future illnesses by expanding scientific and vaccine diplomacy and cooperation, especially to combat the problems that humans have brought on ourselves? Modern diseases and viruses have been spurred anew by war and conflict as well as shifting poverty, urbanization, climate change, and a new troubling anti-science/anti-vaccination outlook. From such twenty-first-century forces, we have seen declines in previous global health gains, with sharp increases in vaccine-preventable and neglected diseases on the Arabian Peninsula, in Venezuela, in parts of Africa, and even on the Gulf Coast of the United States. In Preventing the Next Pandemic, international vaccine scientist and tropical disease and coronavirus expert Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, argues that we can—and must—rely on vaccine diplomacy to address this new world order in disease and global health. Detailing his years in the lab developing new vaccines, Hotez also recounts his travels around the world to shape vaccine partnerships with people in countries both rich and poor in an attempt to head off major health problems. Building on the legacy of Dr. Albert Sabin, who developed the oral polio vaccine with Soviet scientists at the height of the Cold War, he explains how he is still working to refresh and redirect vaccine diplomacy toward neglected and newly emerging diseases. Hotez reveals how—during his Obama-era tenure as the US Science Envoy for the Middle East and North Africa, which coincided with both the rise in these geopolitical forces and climate change—he witnessed tropical infectious diseases and established vaccine partnerships that may still combat them up close. He explores why, since 2015, we've seen the decline of global cooperation and cohesion, to the detriment of those programs that are meant to benefit the most vulnerable people in the world. Unfortunately, Hotez asserts, these negative global events kick off a never-ending loop. Problems in a country may lead to disease outbreaks, but those outbreaks can lead to further problems—such as the impact of coronavirus on China's society and economy, which has been felt around the globe. Zeroing in on the sociopolitical and environmental factors that drive our most controversial and pressing global health concerns, Hotez proposes historically proven methods to soothe fraught international relations while preparing us for a safer, healthier future. He hammers home the importance of public engagement to communicate the urgency of embracing science during troubled times. Touching on a range of disease, from leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis, and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) to COVID-19, Preventing the Next Pandemic has always been a timely goal, but it will be even more important in a COVID and post-COVID world.