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The contagion next time / Sandro Galea.

by Galea, Sandro.

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Oxford University Press, 2021.

COVID-19 (Disease) -- History.

Epidemics -- Prevention.

9780197576427 (hc.)

xx, 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Sandro Galea is Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In a few short months, Covid-19 devastated the world and, in particular, the United States. Yet America was already in poor health before Covid-19 appeared. Racism, marginalization, socioeconomic inequality -- our failure to address these forces left us vulnerable to Covid-19 and the ensuing global health crisis it became. Had we tackled these challenges twenty years ago, after the outbreak of SARS, perhaps Covid-19 could have been quickly contained. Instead, we allowed our systems to deteriorate. Building on the themes of his award-winning publication 'Well,' Sandro Galeas's 'The Contagion Next Time' articulates the foundational forces shaping health in our society and how we can strengthen them to prevent the next outbreak from becoming a pandemic. (...)" --Jacket.

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