The Covid-19 Reader : The Science and What It Says About the Social (Paperback)

Contents Part I. Introduction Preparing for the Next Pandemic Michael T. Osterholm Identifying Airborne Transmission as the Dominant Route for the Spread of COVID-19 Renyi Zhang, Yixin Li, Annie L. Zhangc, Yuan Wang and Mario J. Molina Asymptomatic Transmission, the Achilles’ Heel of Current Strategies to Control Covid-19 Monica Gandhi, Deborah S. Yokoe and Diane V. Havlir Part II. The Origin in China Pangolins Harbor SARS-CoV-2-Related Coronaviruses Guan-Zhu Han The Epidemiological and Clinical Features of COVID-19 and Lessons from this Global Infectious Public Health Event Huilan Tu, Sheng Tu, Shiqi Gao, Anwen Shao and Jifang Sheng Authoritarianism, Outbreaks, and Information Politics Matthew Kavanagh China’s Diplomacy and Changing the COVID-19 Narrative Raj Verma Part III. Europe First Cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the WHO European Region, 24 January to 21 February 2020 Gianfranco Spiteri, James Fielding, Michaela Diercke et al. Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality: Are Comorbidities to Blame? Krithi Ravi Nudges Against Pandemics: Sweden’s COVID-19 Containment Strategy in Perspective Jon Pierre Herd immunity or suppression strategy to combat COVID-19 F. Jung, V. Krieger, F.T. Hufert, and J.-H. Kupper 　 Part IV. United States and Canada Public Health Response to the Initiation and Spread of Pandemic COVID-19 in the United States, February 24?April 21, 2020 Anne Schuchat Characteristics of Persons Who Died with COVID-19 ? United States, February 12?May 18, 2020 Jonathan M. Wortham et al. States Divided: The Implications of American Federalism for COVID-19 Donald F. Kettl Shelter-In-Place Orders Reduced COVID-19 Mortality and Reduced The Rate Of Growth In Hospitalizations Wei Lyu and George L. Wehby Strong Social Distancing Measures in the United States Reduced the COVID-19 Growth Rate Charles Courtemanche, Joseph Garuccio, Anh Le, Joshua Pinkston, and Aaron Yelowitz Understanding COVID-19 Risks and Vulnerabilities among Black Communities in America: The Lethal Force of Syndemics Tonia Poteat, Gregorio A. Millett, LaRon E. Nelson and Chris Beyrer Early Signs Indicate That COVID-19 is Exacerbating Gender Inequality in the Labor Force Linda Christin Lanivar et al. Visualizing the Geographic and Demographic Distribution of COVID-19 Patrick Denice et al. 　 Part V. Latin America and Africa In the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil, Do Brown Lives Matter?" Helena Ribeiro, Viviana Mendes Lima and Eliseu Alves Waldman The Colliding Epidemics of COVID-19, Ebola, and Measles in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Jean B Nachega, Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, John Otshudiema, Alimuddin Zumla, Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tam-Fum Africa in the Path of Covid-19 Wafaa M. El-Sadr and Jessica Justman Part VI. Resolution Why do countries respond differently to COVID-19? A comparative study of Sweden, China, France, and Japan by Bo Yan, Xiaomin Zhang, Long Wu, Heng Zhu, and Bin Chen How Pandemics End Gina Kolata