EVALUATING A PANDEMIC

Written by an international group of experts and endorsed by leading scientists, this multi-author book answers two of today's most pressing questions: the origin of the virus and the consequences of lockdown. Aimed at the general reader as well as at researchers and medical doctors, its span includes previously suppressed data on the origin of the virus, the development of novel mRNA vaccines, the case for a Swedish type of mild lockdown, and analyses of social and political issues thrown up by the pandemic. Evaluating a Pandemic is an incisive account of how civilisation grappled with the greatest world crisis since WWII. Join Charles Pasternak and his authors as they sketch a future of health, equity, and hope.

Contents:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• About the Editor
• About the Contributors
• The Origin of the COVID-19 Viru (Angus Dalgleish)
• ChAdOx1: How an Academic Vaccine Achieved Global Reach (Sean Elias)
• mRNA Vaccines: From Lab Concept to Leading Rescue Platform During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Hana Hassanin)
• Leveraging COVID-19 Diagnostics to Confront Both Epidemic and Endemic Diseases (Anne Hoppe, Aurelia Vessiere and Daniel G Bausch)
• First as Farce, Twice as Tragedy: US Exceptionalism in COVID-19 Response (Martha Lincoln)
• What Do Four Waves of COVID Tell Us? (David Meenagh and Patrick Minford)
• Trust the Public? How the UK Government Got the Psychology of COVID-19 Wrong and Why It Matters (Stephen Reicher)
• Navigating the Waves of Change: Emotional Agility as the Compass for Internal Auditors (Ana Martins and Narishaa Shah)
• The Lessons of Past Pandemics (A C Grayling)
• Grey Rhino, Black Swan or Dragon King? The COVID-19 Pandemic in Historical Perspective (Niall Ferguson)
• Evaluating COVID-19 in the Context of Global Catastrophic Risk (Tom Hobson, Lara Mani, Catherine Rhodes, and Lalitha Sundaram)
• Index

Readership: All stakeholders involved in the COVID-19 response (scientists, clinicians, psychologists, economists, bureaucrats, politicians). The book will also be of interest to historians and sociologists, as well as to the general reader.

'Written by key actors on the frontlines of the response to COVID-19, this book critically addresses the key issues of the continuing pandemic, while providing precious recommendations on how to prepare and respond better to future epidemics.' - Sir Peter Piot, EU Chief Scientific Advisor (Epidemics)Handa Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

'General readers should be grateful to Charles Pasternak for assembling this book: the chapters offer enlightening perspectives on the pandemic.' - Martin Rees OM FRS FREng FRASThe Lord Rees of Ludlow, Astronomer Royal, 60th President of the Royal Society, UK

'The scope is wide ranging and Professor Pasternak has attracted key individuals in the UK, USA and UN organisations to be involved in writing appropriate chapters covering the epidemiology, economic consequences and legacy for future clinical approaches to pandemics. This is a timely book which will be of great interest worldwide.' - Edith SimEmeritus Professor, University of Oxford, UK

Key Features:

• Expert assessment of the outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic and proposals for future vigilance
• Multi-angle coverage from infectious epidemiology, vaccines and clinical medicine to sociology, politics and world history