TY - GEN AU - Mackenzie,Debora TI - Stopping the next pandemic : : how COVID-19 can help us save humanity SN - 9780306924224 AV - HM 1101 M156s 2021 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - Hachette Books, KW - Pandemias KW - Epidemias KW - Aspectos sociales KW - COVID-19 KW - Aspectos políticos y sociales N1 - Revised and expanded ; A note on the virus Could we have stopped this whole thing at the start? What are these emerging diseases, and why are they emerging? SARS, MERS you can't say we weren't warned Don't blame the bats Wasn't the pandemic supposed to be flu? So what do we do about disease? Things fall apart The pandemic that never should have happened and how to stop the next one N2 - Over the last 30 years we learned nearly every lesson needed to stop this coronavirus outbreak in its tracks-- and we heeded almost none of them. The result is a pandemic on a scale never before seen in our lifetimes. MacKenzie lays out the full story of the previous viruses that should have prepared us, the shocking public health failures that paved the way, the failure to contain the outbreak, and most importantly, what we must do to prevent future pandemics. -- adapted from jacket ER -