The Wisdom Of Plagues: Lessons From 25 Years Covering Pandemics Donald G Mcneil Jr Simon Schuster Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

Award-Winning New York Times Reporter Donald G Mcneil Jr Reflects On Twenty-Five Years Of Covering Pandemics—How Governments React To Them How The Media Covers They Are Exploited And What We Can Do Prepare For Next One—In This “Fascinating Ferocious Fusillade Against Humanity’s Two Deadliest Enemies: Disease Itself” (The Economist) Millions Americans Was A Comforting Voice When Covid-19 Pandemic Broke Out He Regular Times’s Popular Podcast Daily Told Listeners Early Worst He’d Covered Public Health Quickly Realized That An Obscure Virus In Wuhan China Destined Grow Into Global Rivaling 1918 Spanish Flu Because His Clear Advice Generation Readers Knew Risk Real But Might Be Spared By Taking Right Precautions Prescient Work Won 2021 Pulitzer Gold Medal Service Wisdom Plagues Is “Must-Reading Preparing Us Better Unavoidable Epidemic” (Peter Piot Md Co-Discoverer Ebola) As Shares Account Learned Over Quarter-Century Reporting Sixty Counties Many Science Reporters Understand Basics Diseases—From Works Goes Making Vaccine Very Few Psychology Small Outbreaks Turn Pandemics Why People Refuse Believe They’re At Or Reject Protective Measures Like Quarantine Vaccines Story Had Trained Whole Life Cover Expertise Breadth Sources Let Him Make Accurate Predictions 2020 About Course Deadly Would Take Different Countries Respond Time Wrote Last Stories Not Lost Compassion—But Grown Far More Stone-Hearted Should Witnessed Enough Disasters Read History Realize While Every Epidemic Failure One Constant Case-Clusters Ballooned Catastrophe Weak Leaders Became Mired Denial Citizens Refused Even Minor Sacrifices Common Good Were Encouraged Money-Hungry Entrepreneurs Power-Hungry Populists Ignored Obvious Truths Denied Innocent Too Often Died “One Most Enlightening Books Health” (Lena Wen Md) Offers Tough Prescriptive Improve Prepared Inevitable Σελίδες: 400 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0213 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm