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Some people can fight off infections relatively easily, with minor symptoms, while others suffer severely. But these outcomes—and our immune responses against them—aren’t fixed; we can build immune resilience. But how? The answer goes beyond popping vitamin C and zinc during flu season. As clinical nutritionist Romilly Hodges reveals, our immune system is intricate and multifaceted, and powerfully impacted by what we eat, as well as by our lifestyle routines.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19 - its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it.

Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America’s COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything? In Uncontrolled Spread, he 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

In March 2020, soon-to-graduate medical students in New York City were nervously awaiting “match day” when they would learn where they would begin their residencies. Only a week later, these young physicians learned that they would be sent to the front lines of the desperate battle to save lives as the coronavirus plunged the city into crisis. In this powerful book, New York Times journalist Emma Goldberg offers an up-close portrait of six bright yet inexperienced health professionals, each of whom defies a stereotype about who gets to don a doctor’s white coat.

In COVID-19: The Virus That Changed America and the World, renowned author, attorney, and healthcare infrastructure expert Kenneth Foard McCallion offers a fascinating and sweeping view of the COVID-19 pandemic, starting with an exploration of ancient plagues and tackling important and timely subjects such as racial disparities in the virus' impact, what COVID has revealed about the US healthcare system, and how the pandemic has increased the wealth divide.

The bumper-sticker directive to ‘follow the science’ was actually an evasion of responsibility. It let people off the hook for their bad decisions in a crisis. Was New York Governor Cuomo’s executive order sending COVID-hospitalized patients back to nursing homes to infect other vulnerable nursing home patients ‘following the science’? Relative to the total nursing home population, Governor Cuomo contributed to a larger percentage of nursing-home deaths - especially when compared to the states without such a policy.

Societies have struggled with pandemics for thousands of years. Plague and cholera, smallpox and influenza; deadly diseases spring up, kill thousands, if not millions, and we still don’t learn. We make the same mistakes again and again. Defeating an infectious agent should not be complicated. The principles of public health are straightforward and have not changed for more than a hundred years.

Les bons gestes d'hygiène, un système immunitaire au top... tous les conseils pour éviter d'attraper le coronavirus (et les autres virus !). Se prémunir des virus, c'est possible ! Le coronavirus circule toujours, mais il existe des solutions simples pour l'éviter. Les gestes barrière doivent devenir des réflexes pour se protéger et pour protéger les autres : port du masque, lavage des mains, distanciation physique, hygiène générale.

COVID-19 is the defining event of 2020 and possibly the decade. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, and in the months since this declaration, the virus has shown no sign of relenting. This microscopic enemy has invaded every country and aspect of life, leading to a frantic global scramble for treatments, information, and an effective vaccine.

Are you beginning to think that hand washing and masks are not enough to protect our families or the CDC suggestions are not enough to reopen our business safely? They’re not! Win the War on Covid-19 describes known and verified contagion reduction strategies in detail. These are the strategies that pathogen control experts use to make interior space safe again.

No other topic dominates our attention as much as coronavirus and COVID-19, the infectious disease it triggers. There’s been a global deluge of contradictory opinions, fake news, and politically controlled information. Differing views on the dangers posed by the pandemic have led to deep division and confusion, within governments, society, and even among friends and family. In Corona, False Alarm?, award-winning researchers Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi and Dr. Karina Reiss give clarity to these confusing and stressful times.

The story of the Spanish Flu of 1918 is best told and understood from the newspaper reports of publications large and small from every corner of the United States. The news reports have been picked at random, with an emphasis on selecting news articles that told of effects in the rural, small towns, cities, army camps, navy yards, with armed forces deployed at sea and in France as well as on Indian Reservations.

Dopo la grande accoglienza dell`articolo intitolato ”Qual è il ruolo dello psicologo di fronte al nuovo Coronavirus?” che ho pubblicato su Cátedra Abierta de Psicología y Neurociencias lo scorso 12 febbraio 2020, e dato l`interesse suscitato tra colleghi psicologi e altre persone interessate alla psicologia, ho deciso di scrivere questo libro in cui viene affrontato l`argomento della prospettiva psicologica in tempi di pandemia.

In the case of the recent virus, the most ideal carrier animal is a bat or snake. Since humans don’t consume snakes and bats in several areas of the world but in some places like China they are consumed, it is suspected that the new outbreak is linked to the consumption of an infected bat. The same is the cause for other virus outbreaks in the past.

This book charts the history and legacy of the worst global pandemics and begins with the history of the diseases, including the Spanish flu and many others and how they shaped subsequent events, bringing down nations while inadvertently lifting others. The weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in this account of the Spanish influenza.

What can we learn from the past pandemics? Do you want to know more about the Spanish flu? The pandemic had nearly similar causes to influenza; we are now fighting because of the reality that the H1N1 epidemic triggered Spanish flu from animals. The pandemic has catastrophic effects, and the overall mortality reported is greater than SARS, HIV, Black Death, and Ebola.

Pandemia es una obra fundamental de historia epidemiológica que explora los orígenes de las epidemias, trazando paralelismos entre el cólera - uno de los patógenos causantes de pandemias más letales y perturbadores de la historia - y otras nuevas enfermedades que nos acechan.

Mankind’s annals don’t get darker. Delve into the deadliest pandemic ever known. No one knew where it came from, and at a certain point, it didn’t matter because it seemed to be everywhere...stalking the land with silent menace. It clung to people and animals like a second skin, traveling to distant places on the backs of traders and travelers who didn’t even know they were dead. It could kill swiftly and brutally, or slowly and painfully, and no one knew if they had it until it was far too late.

Before the scientific age, people had no knowledge of the microbiological agents - unseen bacteria and viruses - which afflicted them, and thus, the maladies were often ascribed to wrathful supernatural forces. Even when advances in knowledge posited natural causes for epidemics and pandemics, medicine struggled to deal with them, and for hundreds of years, religion continued to work hand-in-hand with medicine.

Global Pandemic Solutions provides a road map to understand Coronavirus testing. Distinguishes the difference between the virus (SARS CoV-2) and the disease (Covid-19). A history of viruses and pandemics is explored. The innate and adaptive immune system is described in humans to understand how it interacts with the Coronavirus. The value of vaccines and ventilators as it relates to the Coronavirus is clarified. Finally, solutions for prevention of Coronavirus disease and best interventions if actually obtain the Covid-19 disease is offered.