Section 5. COVID is here to stay / 100 years after the lethal 1918 flu pandemic, we are still vulnerable / Christine Crudo Blackburn. Anthony S. Fauci ; The 1918 flu faded in our collective memory: we might 'forget' the coronavirus, too / Scott Hershberger ; Lessons from past outbreaks could help fight the coronavirus pandemic / Sara Goudarzi ; Stories from a past pandemic / the editors ; Millions of people living with HIV are alive, thanks to a 20-year public health effort / Lauren J. Young ; HIV care has improved dramatically--but, not for everyone / David Malebranche ; Lessons from AIDS from the COVID-19 pandemic / William A. Haseltime -- Section 2. The science and medicine of COVID-19 : How China's 'bat woman' hunted down viruses from SARS to the new coronavirus / Jane Qiu ; A high-speed scientific hive mind emerged from the COVID pandemic / Joseph Bak-Coleman, Carl T. Bergstrom ; An mRNA pioneer discusses how her work led to the COVID vaccines / Tanya Lewis ; Messenger RNA therapies are finally fulfilling their promise / Drew Weissman ; Pandemic-era research will pay off for years / Britt Glaunsinger ; COVID revealed the fragility of American public health / Wendy E. Parmet ; COVID pushed global health institutions to their limits / Lawrence O. Gostin -- Section 3. How COVID-19 changed society : COVID has made global inequality much worse / Joseph E. Stiglitz ; COVID has created a perfect storm for fringe science / David Robert Grimes ; COVID changed the world of work forever / Christina Maslach, Michael P. Leiter ; How a virus exposed the myth of rugged individualism / Robin G. Nelson ; How the pandemic remade science journalism / Tanya Lewis ; Introducing 21 ways COVID changed the world / Jen Schwartz -- Section 4. Meanwhile, other epidemics : The biggest health problem: obesity / Mercedes Carnethon ; The opioid epidemic is surging among black people because of unequal access to treament / Melba Newsome, Gioncarlo Valentine ; Doctors need to learn to talk about suicide / Rodolfo Bonnin, Leonard M. Gralnik ; Why does ebola keep showing up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? / Dina Fine Maron ; Ebola outbreak in Uganda surges, but the country has a plan / Paul Adepoju ; "Their lives are worth more than ours": Experts in Africa slam global response to monkeypox / Paul Adepoju ; We can't let monkeypox turn into a repeat of COVID / Muhammad Jawad Noon -- Section 5. What lies ahead : Tick- and mosquito-borne diseases are increasing dramatically / Kacey C. Ernst ; Want to prevent another coronavirus epidemic? / William A. Haseltine ; The next zika / Marta Zaraska ; COVID is here to stay / Christine Crudo Blackburn.
Summary:
"The massive global impacts of COVID-19 made the issue of pandemics and epidemics a major concern among the public, politicians, doctors, and scientific researchers. However, it is far from the first pandemic, and experts suggest that it almost certainly will not be the last. The articles in this volume consider past pandemics and epidemics to explain how certain diseases are able to spread on such a massive scale. They explain the medical advancements that have helped prevent some diseases from having the devastating impacts they did in the past while also considering why some infections are more difficult to control. Writers and experts also offer predictions on the types of pandemics and epidemics that may occur in the future and what can potentially be done to stop them"-- Provided by publisher.
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