Uncontrolled spread : why COVID-19 crushed us and how we can defeat the next pandemic Cover Image

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Uncontrolled spread : why COVID-19 crushed us and how we can defeat the next pandemic / Scott Gottlieb, MD.

Gottlieb, Scott, (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780063080010
ISBN: 006308001X
Physical Description: xi, 493 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

America the vulnerable -- Confusion and subterfuge -- Pandemics as national security threats -- The outbreak we didn't want to see -- Looking for spread in the wrong places -- The Zika misadventure -- The CDC fails -- Not enough tests and not enough labs -- Shortage after shortage -- Preparing for the wrong pathogen -- Stay-at-home orders - -A plan gone awry -- The information desert -- Hardened sites -- Evidence is hard to collect in a crisis -- Getting drugs to patients -- The mRNA breakthrough -- A new doctrine for national security.