Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For millions of Americans, Donald McNeil was a comforting voice when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. He was a regular reporter on The New York Times's popular podcast The Daily and told listeners early on to prepare for the worst. He'd covered public health for twenty-five years and quickly realized that an obscure virus in Wuhan, China, was destined to grow into a global pandemic rivaling the 1918 Spanish flu. Because of his clear advice, a generation...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The coronavirus disease COVID-19 emerged in November 2019. By March 2020, cities all around the world closed schools, offices, restaurants, and other public spaces deemed "non-essential" in an attempt to contain the fast-spreading virus. People struggled to follow government orders, stay indoors, and limit contact with others. But the virus that caused one of the world's deadliest pandemics eventually killed over two million people worldwide. This...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"At the beginning of 2020, doctors and scientists knew they were in a race to save lives. They needed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, find treatments for COVID-19, and develop a vaccine and distribute it to people all over the globe. Using the knowledge scientists had gained over the year, they had developed ways to prevent and treat COVID-19. There was no cure, but vaccines were being administered"--
Author
Publisher
Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China in January 2020. Politicians, government officials, business leaders, and public-health professionals were unprepared for the most devastating pandemic in a century. Many of the world's biggest drug and vaccine makers were slow to react or couldn't muster an effective response. It was up to a small group of unlikely and untested scientists and executives to save civilization....
7) The truth about COVID-19: exposing the great reset, lockdowns, vaccine passports, and the new normal
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Since early 2020, the world has experienced a series of catastrophic events-a global pandemic caused by what appears to be an engineered coronavirus; international lockdowns and border closings causing widespread business closures, economic collapse, and massive unemployment; and an unprecedented curtailment of civil liberties and freedoms in the name of keeping people safe by locking them up in their homes. We are now living in a world that is increasingly...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America's COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything? ... [H]e shows how the coronavirus and its variants were able to trounce America's pandemic preparations, and he outlines the steps that must be taken to protect against the next outbreak. As the pandemic unfolded, Gottlieb was in regular contact with all the key players in Congress, the Trump administration, and the drug and diagnostic...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At her stepdaughter's wedding day to her pandemic boyfriend--the last gathering at the family's beach house in Cape Cod--Sarah is faced with lovers being revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings, and secrets, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.
Publisher
Central Avenue Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19 is a collection of essays, poems, and interviews to serve as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during this stressful time of isolation as well as a historical perspective that will remain relevant for years to come. All net profits will be donated to The Book Industry Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit organization that coordinates charitable programs to strengthen...
Author
Publisher
MR
Pub. Date
agosto de 2020
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: On December 31, 2019, China informed the World Health Organization (WHO) about the appearance of several cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, a city in the province of Hubei. On January 23, Hubei was closed. On January 31, the WHO decreed a global health emergency. After the highest global health body declared the appearance of this global pandemic and journalists, government officials and politicians - although not...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The global economy was booming as 2020 dawned, but within a few short months wreckage, death, and desperation borne of economic contraction were the new normal. What happened? In When Politicians Panicked, economic commentator John Tamny tells the heart-wrenching story of a time when politicians were tragically relieved of basic common sense in their response to the new coronavirus. In March of 2020, the virus quickly became a major news item as political...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Senator Rand Paul was on to Anthony Fauci from the start. Wielding previously unimaginable power, Fauci misled the country about the origins of the Covid pandemic and shut down scientific dissent. One of the few leaders who dared to challenge "America's Doctor" was Senator Rand Paul, himself a physician. Deception is his indictment of the catastrophic failures of the public health bureaucracy during the pandemic. Senator Paul presents the evidence...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in early 2020, people worldwide hunkered down in their homes to slow the virus's spread. In an attempt to slow the spread, many countries closed their borders, schools, and businesses. They instituted lockdowns and ordered citizens to stay at home except for emergencies, which often lasted for weeks or months. In countries worldwide, people have struggled during the pandemic with their feelings...
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
© 2021
Language
English
Description
The author, a journalist before attending medical school, is an Emeritus Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and former Chief Medical Officer at San Francisco General Hospital. Although he retired from caring for critically ill patients and studying their diseases several years ago, he followed the COVID-19 pandemic closely during 2020 and put his observations into My Journal of the Plague Year, which was...
Author
Publisher
Ickonic Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"David Icke has been writing books for decades warning that current events were coming. He has faced ridicule and abuse for saying that the end of human freedom was being planned, how, and by whom. His latest highly topical book, Perceptions of a Renegade Mind, is published in very different circumstances with vast numbers of people acknowledging that he has been vindicated by the happenings of the 'Covid' era. His predictions over more than 30 years...
Author
Publisher
Books on Demand
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
""The book 'Virus Mania' has been written with the care of a master-craftsman, courageously evaluating the medical establishment, the corporate elites and the powerful government funding institutions." Wolfgang Weuffen, MD, Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Epidemiology "The book 'Virus-Wahn' can be called the first work in which the errors, frauds and general misinformations being spread by official bodies about doubtful or non-virus infections...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
©2020
Language
English
Description
A deep, science-backed look at how the coronavirus pandemic will change the way we live forever -- from renowned physician and sociologist Nicholas Christakis. APOLLO'S ARROW offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on American society as it unfolded in 2020, and on how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on a combination of fascinating case studies and cutting-edge research from a range of scientific disciplines,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Setting the great crisis of 2020 in broad historical perspective, Niall Ferguson challenges the conventional wisdom that our failure to cope better with disaster was solely a crisis of political leadership, as opposed to a more profound systemic problem. Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael Lewis's nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19. A thirteen-year-old girl's science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. A local public-health officer uses her worm's-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society. A secret team of dissenting...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request