Covid 19

Author : Thierry Malleret,Klaus Schwab
Publisher : ISBN Agentur Schweiz
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 2940631123

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Covid-19: The Great Reset by Thierry Malleret,Klaus Schwab Pdf

"The Corona crisis and the Need for a Great Reset" is a guide for anyone who wants to understand how COVID-19 disrupted our social and economic systems, and what changes will be needed to create a more inclusive, resilient and sustainable world going forward. Thierry Malleret, founder of the Monthly Barometer, and Klaus Schwab, founder and executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explore what the root causes of these crisis were, and why they lead to a need for a Great Reset.Theirs is a worrying, yet hopeful analysis. COVID-19 has created a great disruptive reset of our global social, economic, and political systems. But the power of human beings lies in being foresighted and having the ingenuity, at least to a certain extent, to take their destiny into their hands and to plan for a better future. This is the purpose of this book: to shake up and to show the deficiencies which were manifest in our global system, even before COVID broke out.

Author : Leah West
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1773852434

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Stress Tested: The Covid-19 Pandemic and Canadian National Security by Leah West Pdf

The emergence of COVID-19 has raised urgent and important questions about the role of Canadian intelligence and national security within a global health crisis. Some argue that the effects of COVID-19 on Canada represent an intelligence failure, or a failure of early warning. Others argue that the role of intelligence and national security in matters of health is--and should remain--limited. At the same time, traditional security threats have rapidly evolved, themselves impacted and influenced by the global pandemic. Stress Tested brings together leading experts to examine the role of Canada's national security and intelligence community in anticipating, responding to, and managing a global public welfare emergency. This interdisciplinary collection offers a clear-eyed view of successes, failures, and lessons learned in Canada's pandemic response. Addressing topics including supply chain disruptions, infrastructure security, the ethics of surveillance within the context of pandemic response, the threats and potential threats of digital misinformation and fringe beliefs, and the challenges of maintaining security and intelligence operations during an ongoing pandemic, Stress Tested is essential reading for anyone interested in the lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author : Matt Ridley,Alina Chan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780063273603

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Viral by Matt Ridley,Alina Chan Pdf

"Chan and Ridley write with an urgency...that inspires gripping depictions of what viruses are, how infectious-disease laboratories work and wonderfully lucid descriptions of bats. . . . They powerfully recount how dangerous pathogens can both leak from a lab and emerge in nature." (New York Times Book Review) Understanding how Covid-19 started is crucial for the future of humankind. Viral is the most incisive and authoritative book about the search for the source of the virus. A new virus descended on the human species in 2019 wreaking unprecedented havoc. Finding out where it came from and how it first jumped into people is an urgent priority, but early expectations that this would prove an easy question to answer have been dashed. Nearly two years into the pandemic, the crucial mystery of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is not only unresolved but has deepened. In this uniquely insightful book, a scientist and a writer join forces to try to get to the bottom of how a virus whose closest relations live in bats in subtropical southern China somehow managed to begin spreading among people more than 1,500 kilometres away in the city of Wuhan. They grapple with the baffling fact that the virus left none of the expected traces that such outbreaks usually create: no infected market animals or wildlife, no chains of early cases in travellers to the city, no smouldering epidemic in a rural area, no rapid adaptation of the virus to its new host—human beings. To try to solve this pressing mystery, Viral delves deep into the events of 2019 leading up to 2021, the details of what went on in animal markets and virology laboratories, the records and data hidden from sight within archived Chinese theses and websites, and the clues that can be coaxed from the very text of the virus’s own genetic code. The result is a gripping detective story that takes the reader deeper and deeper into a metaphorical cave of mystery. One by one the authors explore promising tunnels only to show that they are blind alleys, until, miles beneath the surface, they find themselves tantalisingly close to a shaft that leads to the light.

Author : Bruce Winder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798651503636

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RETAIL Before, During and After COVID-19 by Bruce Winder Pdf

Retail Analyst Bruce Winder uses his 30 years of experience to examine the industry before, during and after COVID-19. Winder reviews and classifies key retailers based on their actions and results over the last few years and offers a detailed summary of his 80 top retail trends as of February 2020. When COVID-19 struck North America, Winder captured the impact the pandemic had on the retail industry and provided a detailed prediction of what would lie ahead for this fragile space in the years to come. What would change? What would stay the same? Would retail survive?** 5% of the author's proceeds from this book will be donated to mental health casuses **

Author : Rosalie Warnock,Kayleigh Garthwaite,Ruth Patrick,Maddy Power,Anna Tarrant
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447364481

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COVID-19 Collaborations by Rosalie Warnock,Kayleigh Garthwaite,Ruth Patrick,Maddy Power,Anna Tarrant Pdf

This book synthesises the challenges of researching everyday life for families on low incomes during the COVID-19 pandemic to improve future policy and practice.

Author : Maryellen Coons
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781039152748

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COVID-19: What Does It Mean? by Maryellen Coons Pdf

This book deals about how the world changed so quickly in 2020 through 2022 when the world was hit with the unknown COVID-19 PANDEMIC. It talks about the wearing of masks, staying home and having to be homeschooled. It talks about parents working from home and no-one not being able to see family and friends. It deals with all the restrictions that took place to keep everyone safe. And then it deals with the world eventually returning to a new normal, going back to work and school, being able to see family and friends again.

Author : Debora Mackenzie
Publisher : Bridge Street Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0349128375

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Covid-19 by Debora Mackenzie Pdf

Author : Jacalyn Duffin
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780228015086

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COVID-19 by Jacalyn Duffin Pdf

For two years the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world. The physician and medical historian Jacalyn Duffin presents a global history of the virus, with a focus on Canada. Duffin describes the frightening appearance of the virus and its identification by scientists in China; subsequent outbreaks on cruise ships; the relentless spread to Europe, the Americas, Africa, and elsewhere; and the immediate attempts to confront it. COVID-19 next explores the scientific history of infections generally, and the discovery of coronaviruses in particular. Taking a broad approach, the book explains the advent of tests, treatments, and vaccines, as well as the practical politics behind interventions, including quarantines, barrier technologies, lockdowns, and social and financial supports. In concluding chapters Duffin analyzes the outcome of successive waves of COVID-19 infection around the world: the toll of human suffering, the successes and failures of control measures, vaccine rollouts, and grassroots opposition to governments’ attempts to limit the spread and mitigate social and economic damages. Closing with the fraught search for the origins of COVID-19, Duffin considers the implications of an “infodemic” and provides an cautionary outlook for the future.

Author : Jean-Louis Denis,Catherine Régis,Daniel M. Weinstock
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228010340

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Pandemic Societies by Jean-Louis Denis,Catherine Régis,Daniel M. Weinstock Pdf

At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many thought the changes taking place would be fleeting. It is now widely recognized that COVID-19 will not be the last pandemic in our highly interconnected world, and “pandemic societies” will be with us for some time. Pandemic Societies brings together experts in a wide range of academic disciplines to reflect on how their fields might be transformed in this new context. While the pandemic forces global institutions, such as the World Health Organization, to reimagine the ways in which they function, it also reaches into our everyday lives to change how we organize culture, performing arts, sports, tourism, and cities. Exploring how COVID-19 has altered people’s daily experiences – the ways they meet to play, to perform, and to entertain themselves – this book also pulls the lens back to take in the broader institutional and political contexts in which these quotidian activities are carried out. Examining the profound ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed every aspect of our lives, Pandemic Societies attempts to understand how we might act to steer this pandemic society, and how to reinvent institutions and practices that we think of as intrinsically face to face.

Author : Between the Lines
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771135290

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Sick of the System by Between the Lines Pdf

Families left grieving; small businesses shuttered; communities in lockdown; precarious workers set adrift; health care workers stressed beyond endurance. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core. But the cracks already ran deep. Featuring essays on poverty, health care, incarceration, basic income, policing, Indigenous communities, and more, this anthology delivers a stinging rebuke of the pre-pandemic status quo and a stark exposé of the buried weaknesses in our social and political systems. As policy makers scramble to bail out corporations and preserve an unsustainable labour market, an even greater global catastrophe – in the form of ecological collapse, economic recession, and runaway inequality – looms large on the horizon. What can we do? From professors to poets, the authors of Sick of the System speak in one voice: We can turn our backs on “normal.” We can demand divestment, redistribution, and mutual aid. We can seize new forms of solidarity with both hands. As the world holds its breath, revolutionary ideas have an unprecedented chance to gain ground. There should be no going back.

Author : William C. Cockerham,Geoffrey B. Cockerham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000332605

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The Covid-19 Reader by William C. Cockerham,Geoffrey B. Cockerham Pdf

This reader offers some of the most important writing to date from the science of COVID-19 and what science says about its spread and social implications. The readings have been carefully selected, introduced, and interpreted for an introductory or graduate student readership by a distinguished medical sociology and political science team. While some of the early science was inaccurate, lacking sufficient data, or otherwise incomplete, the author team has selected the most important and reliable early work for teachers and students in courses on medical sociology, public health, nursing, infectious diseases, epidemiology, anthropology of medicine, sociology of health and illness, social aspects of medicine, comparative health systems, health policy and management, health behaviors, and community health. Global in scope, the book tells the story of what happened and how COVID-19 was dealt with. Much of this material is in clinical journals, normally not considered in the social sciences, which are nonetheless informative and authoritative for student and faculty readers. Their selection and interpretation for students makes this concise reader an essential teaching source about COVID-19. An accompanying online resource on the book’s Routledge web page will update and evolve by providing links to new readings as the science develops.

Author : Lauren McKeon
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771050398

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Women of the Pandemic by Lauren McKeon Pdf

The story of the pandemic is the story of women. This riveting narrative offers an account of COVID-19, reminding us of women's leadership and resilience, reflecting back hope and humanity as we all figure out a new normal, together. Throughout history, men have fought, lost, and led us through the world's defining crises. That all changed with COVID-19. In Canada, women's presence in the response to the pandemic has been notable. Women are our nurses, doctors, PSWs. Our cashiers, long-haulers, cooks. In Canada, women are leading the fast-paced search for a vaccine. They are leading our provinces and territories. At home, they are leading families through self-isolation, often bearing the responsibility for their physical and emotional health. They are figuring out what working from home looks like, and many of them are doing it while homeschooling their kids. Women crafted the blueprint for kindness during the pandemic, from sewing masks to kicking off international mutual-aid networks. And, perhaps not surprisingly, women have also suffered some of the biggest losses, bearing the brunt of our economic skydive. Through intimate portraits of Canadian women in diverse situations and fields, Women of the Pandemic is a gripping narrative record of the early months of COVID-19, a clear-eyed look at women's struggles, which highlights their creativity, perseverance, and resilience as they charted a new path forward during impossible times.

Author : Michael Burgan,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780593383797

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What Is the Coronavirus Disease COVID-19? by Michael Burgan,Who HQ Pdf

The #1 New York Times Best-Selling series tells the story of how COVID-19, a coronavirus, was first identified and how it spread throughout the world in the new Who HQ Now format for trending topics. The coronavirus disease COVID-19 emerged in November 2019. By March 2020, cities all around the world closed schools, offices, restaurants and other public spaces deemed “non-essential” in an attempt to contain the fast-spreading virus. People struggled to follow government orders, stay indoors, and limit contact with others. But the virus that caused one of the world’s deadliest pandemics eventually killed over five million people worldwide. This is the story of how COVID-19 changed the world seemingly overnight, and forever.

Author : Tapas Kumar Koley,Monika Dhole
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000214017

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The COVID-19 Pandemic by Tapas Kumar Koley,Monika Dhole Pdf

This volume presents a comprehensive account of the COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the novel coronavirus pandemic, as it happened. Originating in China in late 2019, the COVID-19 outbreak spread across the entire world in a matter of three to four months. This volume examines the first responses to the pandemic, the contexts of earlier epidemics and the epidemiological basics of infectious diseases. Further, it discusses patterns in the spread of the disease; the management and containment of infections at the personal, national and global level; effects on trade and commerce; the social and psychological impact on people; the disruption and postponement of international events; the role of various international organizations like the WHO in the search for solutions; and the race for a vaccine or a cure. Authored by a medical professional and an economist working on the frontlines, this book gives a nuanced, verified and fact-checked analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic and its global response. A one-stop resource on the COVID-19 outbreak, it is indispensable for every reader and a holistic work for scholars and researchers of medical sociology, public health, political economy, public policy and governance, sociology of health and medicine, and paramedical and medical practitioners. It will also be a great resource for policymakers, government departments and civil society organizations working in the area.

Author : Nora Loreto
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773635064

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Spin Doctors by Nora Loreto Pdf

As Canada was in the grips of the worst pandemic in a century, Canadian media struggled to tell the story. Newsrooms, already run on threadbare budgets, struggled to make broader connections that could allow their audience to better understand what was really happening, and why. Politicians and public health officials were mostly given the benefit of the doubt that what they said was true and that they acted in good faith. This book documents each month of the first year of the pandemic and examines the issues that emerged, from racialized workers to residential care to policing. It demonstrates how politicians and uncritical media shaped the popular understanding of these issues and helped to justify the maintenance of a status quo that created the worst ravages of the crisis. Spin Doctors argues alternative ways in which Canadians should understand the big themes of the crisis and create the necessary knowledge to demand large-scale change.