An urgent, gripping, and prescient warning about the inevitable next worldwide pandemicand what we must do to prepare ourselvesfrom the New York Times bestselling authors of Deadliest Enemy.The Covid19 pandemic has been the most devastating natural event the world has experienced in the last century. Millions have been stricken, many with lasting debilitating effects more than 7 million have died around the globe millions more are out of work, scrambling for basic resources companies and businesses across the country have failed social and racial inequities have been brought to the surface and amplified and the global economy has plummeted. And yet, as horrifying as the Covid19 pandemic has been, we must realize that it is not actually "the Big One"the pandemic prospect that haunts the nightmares of epidemiologists and public health officials everywhere, a catastrophe with the potential to alter life across the world on every meaningful levelunless we are properly prepared to deal with it.In The Big One, founding director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy Dr. Michael T. Osterholm and acclaimed author Mark Olshaker examine the lessons of past pandemics, show how the United States and other countries failed to apply those lessons and the emerging science in confronting Covid19, and look to the future, projecting what the next pandemics might look like and the strategies to mitigate them. The Big One is a comprehensive, compelling, and muchneeded...

Binding: Hardcover;336 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: MBNS; Weight: 740 g; Dimensions: 242 x 163 x 32

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