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In the final days of 2019, a new and deadly virus was quietly spreading through the city of Wuhan, China. Within six months it would kill half a million people worldwide, infect a further 10 million, and change the way all of us live, work and play forever.
Now, for the first time, the real story of the greatest global crisis of the age can be told.
Reporters Dylan Howard and Dominic Utton, collaborating from New York and London-infection hotspots...
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of people and infected millions while also devastating the world economy. The consequences of the pandemic, however, go much further: they threaten the fabric of national and international politics around the world. As Henry Kissinger warned, "The coronavirus epidemic will forever alter the world order."
What will be the consequences of the pandemic, and what will a post-COVID world order...
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This microbook analyses the effects upon the world of implementing drastic global lockdown measures to resolve a medium-term medical crisis occasioned by Covid-19. This is an overreaction because it considers neither the multiplicity of consequent non-medical secondary problems generated by these measures nor the implicit problems, nor other concerns. Instead such a crisis must be coped with and there is room for improvement. Therefore the policy...
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The world began to alter in full force at the start of 2020. We would never be able to return to the lives we had known before, forcing us to modify our ways of living.
Everyone has been equally affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. People have lost loved ones, their jobs, and their homes. While businesses and governments fell, individuals began to realise they needed to take safeguards to preserve themselves. Governments advocated policies for social...
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The Asian Development Bank conducted a Philippine enterprise survey during April and May 2020 to gauge the impact of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the business community. This report provides a rich set of initial facts and ideas for the government to develop evidence-based policymaking to support the revival of Philippine enterprises hurt by the pandemic. It also provides survey-based information for current and future analytical use....
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Read the newest book from Kenneth F. McCallion, "a go-to source" featured in major media outlets including MSNBC, CNN, Netflix, The New York Times, USA Today, and more. "Kenneth McCallion may be one of the most influential people almost no one has heard of." RealClearInvestigations. In March 2020, the United States of America came to a screeching halt. After months of confusion and downplaying by officials, the COVID-19 death rate climbed high enough...
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In his travels, Dr. Hugues Fidele Batsielilit, has worked with health clinics and public health programs in professional capacities observing the intersectionality of the human condition, government, technology, politics, and disease. His observations have provided first-hand knowledge of how healthcare systems and health outcomes are impacted when proper consideration is not given to the needs of citizens and governments do not prioritize health....
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What you should know about the Covid-19 vaccines from top experts in the field.
As the SARS-Cov2 virus emerged and spread globally in early 2020, unprecedented international efforts began to develop and test vaccines to control the devastating pandemic. This book focuses on the remarkable progress in developing vaccines, the amazing effectiveness of the early vaccines, and the challenges of delivering them to the population. To put this extraordinary...
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After being near death from cancer, nothing has impacted me like the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused the death of eight close friends and maintained the global economy suffering of a severe crisis with all its social consequences. This pandemic and poems about it should make mankind reflect on their relationship with God-my most powerful source of inspiration calling mankind for greater unity.
Despues de estar cerca de la muerte por cáncer,...
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Winner of the 2020 Emory Global Health Institute Competition.
Here's a book that provides children honest yet positive information about Coronavirus (Covid-19). COVID-19 HELPERS gives kids the facts of the pandemic, but also offers hope. Mr. Rogers said that when things get scary, "Look for the helpers." Likewise, this story reassures children and parents that many people from all walks of life-including kids themselves-are helping to fight the virus....
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This report examines the impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on labor markets in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Labor markets in Southeast Asia were particularly hit hard in 2020, when government containment measures were most severe. COVID-19 has exacerbated growing inequalities in the region-hurting not just low-skilled workers but also middle-skilled workers whose jobs were already at risk from...
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In the final days of 2019, a new and deadly virus was quietly spreading through the city of Wuhan, China. Within six months it would kill half a million people worldwide, infect a further ten million, and change the way all of us live, work and play forever.
Now, for the first time, the real story of the greatest global crisis of the age can be told.
Reporters Dylan Howard and Dominic Utton, collaborating from New York and London-infection hotspots...
73) COVID-19 Don't Be an Easy Target: Tips and Strategies to Reduce Your Chances of Getting Infected
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This book is for the person who wants to minimise their chances of catching Covid-19.
This book offers tips on how an individual can protect themselves from the coronavirus.
During pandemics, Governments advise the population what to do on a national level.
This book shows you what you can do on an individual level.
You will get tips and ideas on what measures to take in the home shopping or at work. It makes you aware of how to use wind direction...
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Este libro parte de la más ridícula metida de pata del hombre, con todas las repercusiones que haya tenido en el universo, pero se detiene a ponderar que, a pesar del inmenso escándalo, el hombre quedó dotado de un cuerpo maravilloso y facultades recónditas, que han estallado desde entonces dejándonos a todos boquiabiertos con la única excepción del mismo Dios que nos arrojó del paraíso.
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Discover the most essential and comprehensive information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, how to ward off infection, and safeguard your mental and physical health during isolation-from the award-winning science journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fast 800 and The FastDiet.
Dr. Michael Mosley has experienced the effects of coronavirus firsthand, as he and both his sons-medical professionals in their twenties-all became...
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Dissenting Voices-an Imprint of Abundant World Institute-is dedicated to helping create and foster the conditions that enable human flourishing and abundance everywhere. To these ends, we seek to inspire, inform, educate, encourage, enable, and support the application of critical thinking, imagination, and innovation to global challenges. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic is one global grand challenge that is on everyone's mind, and is likely to remain...
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El avance pandémico representado actualmente por el Covid-19 (coronavirus) ha marcado un antes y un después en la vida de la humanidad.
De cara a la encrucijada, en materia de salubridad, se hace presente la necesidad de políticas de estado con especial énfasis hacia sectores vulnerables de la sociedad, como lo es la población carcelaria. En el marco de las políticas de estado, en relación a las personas privadas de libertad, la medida de "Reducción...
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La pandemia de la covid-19 ha significado un momento de reflexión para los procesos de integración de América Latina, los cuales se han visto desbordados por su impacto y consecuencias ante la falta de respuestas multilaterales, colaborativas y consensuadas, al preferir actuar de manera individual con prevalencia de soberanías nacionales sobre una actuación de soberanías compartidas. Con ello se está demostrando que, en lo institucional, se...
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Cuando pase la pandemia y sobrevenga la pospandemia, habrá que enfrentar los profundos cambios en el sistema internacional que conducirán hacia un nuevo orden mundial. Dichos cambios cubren diversos frentes: el económico, el geopolítico, el social o el ambiental, y un instrumento como la integración se debe preparar para atender de manera cooperativa, solidaria y consensuada tales retos. En el ámbito económico se produce una revalorización...
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"This title examines viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa with a focus on SARS-COV2, the virus that causes COVID-19, from its beginnings in China to its worldwide spread and efforts to find a cure including vaccines, plasma therapy, and antiviral medications."--Provided by publisher.
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