The Covid-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again

by Richard Horton

Book Overview

The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest science policy failure in a generation. We knew this was coming. Warnings about the threat of a new pandemic have been made repeatedly since the 1980s and it was clear in January that a dangerous new virus was causing a devastating human tragedy in China.? And yet the world ignored the warnings. Why?

In this short and hard-hitting book, Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509546464
• ISBN13: 9781509546466
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.8" x 7.6"