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How to prevent the next pandemic / Bill Gates

By: Gates, Bill, 1955-Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: India : Allen Lane ; 2022Description: 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN: 9780241579602Subject(s): COVID-19 (Disease) -- Prevention | COVID-19 -- prevention & control | Communicable -- diseases -- Prevention | EpidemicsDDC classification: 614.592
Contents:
Learn from COVID Create a pandemic prevention team Get better at detecting outbreaks early Help people protect themselves right away Find new treatments fast Get ready to make vaccines Practice, practice, practice Close the health gap between rich and poor countries Make, and fund, a plan for preventing pandemics Afterword: How COVID changed the course of our digital future
Summary: "The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over. But even as governments around the world try to get it under control, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent another pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy? Can we even hope to accomplish this? Bill Gates believes the answer is yes, and he has written a largely upbeat book that lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should learn from COVID-19, explains the science of fighting pandemics, and suggests what all of us can do to help prevent another one. Given the worldwide success of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (which debuted at #1 on the New York Times best seller list), Gates is more respected than ever for his approach to solving the world's biggest challenges"-- Provided by publisher
List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals- September 1st to 30th 2022
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Learn from COVID
Create a pandemic prevention team
Get better at detecting outbreaks early
Help people protect themselves right away
Find new treatments fast
Get ready to make vaccines
Practice, practice, practice
Close the health gap between rich and poor countries
Make, and fund, a plan for preventing pandemics
Afterword: How COVID changed the course of our digital future

"The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over. But even as governments around the world try to get it under control, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent another pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy? Can we even hope to accomplish this? Bill Gates believes the answer is yes, and he has written a largely upbeat book that lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should learn from COVID-19, explains the science of fighting pandemics, and suggests what all of us can do to help prevent another one. Given the worldwide success of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (which debuted at #1 on the New York Times best seller list), Gates is more respected than ever for his approach to solving the world's biggest challenges"-- Provided by publisher

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