The contagion next time

Resource Information

The work The contagion next time represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The contagion next time

Statement of responsibility

Sandro Galea

Creator

• Galea, Sandro

Author

• Galea, Sandro

Subject

• Equality -- Health aspects
• Health and race
• COVID-19 (Disease)
• World health
• Minorities -- Medical care
• Epidemics -- Prevention

Language

eng

Summary

"It began with a bat. This was the species in which the virus first emerged before infecting humans. A member of the coronavirus family of diseases, the symptoms of the virus included high fever, dry cough, body aches, diarrhea, and pneumonia. It spread primarily through respiratory droplets emitted when an infected person coughed or sneezed. This made it important to minimize person-to-person contact and observe social distancing in public spaces where the virus could be transmitted. Once the world became aware of the disease, it mobilized to stop it. These efforts were successful. Quarantine measures, quickly adopted, substantially slowed the spread of the disease. Within months of the detection of the virus in humans, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak contained. A total of 8,098 people were infected during the outbreak, and 774 died. [This was] the 2003 SARS outbreak, although one could be forgiven for thinking [of] Covid-19. SARS was contained quickly with relatively few infections and deaths while Covid-19 became a global crisis that infected and killed millions and effectively made the earth stand still. The key question we should be asking ourselves is this: what challenges were facing us when SARS hit that we should have tended to so that we could have handled Covid-19 better? And the next contagion?"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DNLM/DLC

Dewey number

362.1089

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

RA563.M56

LC item number

G35 2022

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

WA 300 AA1