01653cam a2200277 i 4500 on1148596957 OCoLC ta 210224s2020 nyu e b 000 0 eng d 9780306924248 0306924242 (OCoLC)1148596957 WC501 .M33 2020 Mackenzie, Debora. COVID-19 : the pandemic that never should have happened and how to stop the next one / Debora Mackenzie. 1st ed. New York : Hachette Books, 2020. xxi, 279 p. Includes bibliographical references. A note on the virus -- Could we have stopped this whole thing at the start? -- What are these emerging diseases, and why are they emerging? -- SARS, MERS-- you can't say we weren't warned -- Don't blame the bats -- Wasn't the pandemic supposed to be flu? -- So what do we do about disease? -- Things fall apart -- The pandemic that never should have happened-- and how to stop the next one. Over the last 30 years we learned nearly every lesson needed to stop this coronavirus outbreak in its tracks-- and we heeded almost none of them. The result is a pandemic on a scale never before seen in our lifetimes. MacKenzie lays out the full story of the previous viruses that should have prepared us, the shocking public health failures that paved the way, the failure to contain the outbreak, and most importantly, what we must do to prevent future pandemics. COVID-19 (Disease) Communicable diseases Prevention. Epidemics Prevention & control. nlm BK 1 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 WC501 .M33 2020 PNLIB21060479 2021-10-03 2021-07-05 2021-07-05 2021-06-17 BK 665 665