Preparing for Pandemics: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis and Covid-19

by Frank Milne and David Longworth

In far too many cases, recommendations of forensic reports on previous pandemics were ignored. Substantial weaknesses in the preparation by public health authorities and governments increased the health and economic costs of the COVID-19 pandemic relative to what they would have been if pre-existing recommendations had been followed and a wider set of plans had been put into place. We discuss parallels between the lack of preparation of financial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 981125592X
• ISBN13: 9789811255922
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"