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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The United States federal government has spent over $10 billion on medical protective wear and emergency supplies, yet as COVID-19 swept the nation, life-saving equipment such as masks, gloves, and ventilators was nearly impossible to find. In this nonfiction thriller, investigative reporter J. David McSwane takes us behind the scenes to reveal how traders, contractors, and healthcare companies used one of the darkest moments in American history...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America. An ill-timed visit forces twentysomething New Yorker Julian to shelter in place in Venice Beach with his glamorous and eccentric ninety-three-year-old grandmother, Mamie Künstler,...
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"Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America's COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything? ... [H]e 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. As the pandemic unfolded, Gottlieb was in regular contact with all the key players in Congress, the Trump administration, and the drug and diagnostic...
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English
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In March 2020, Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero was hospitalized for what he and his wife, Amanda Kloots, believed to be a severe case of pneumonia. An eventual diagnosis of COVID-19 led to Nick's being placed on a ventilator, and Amanda took to documenting their journey on social media, showing the dangers COVID-19 posed to everyone, regardless of age. When he passed away after ninety-five grueling days in the ICU, the world grieved. Here Kloots tells...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
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278 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"The dramatic story of the married scientists who founded BioNTech and developed the first vaccine against COVID-19. Nobody thought it was possible. In mid-January 2020, Ugur Sahin told Özlem Türeci, his wife and decades-long research partner, that a vaccine against what would soon be known as COVID-19 could be developed and safely injected into the arms of millions before the end of the year. His confidence was built upon almost thirty years of...
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English
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Weaving together in-depth interviews with doctors, their diaries, and notes, this page-turning account follows the medical students who received their degrees early to help treat thousands of critically ill COVID-19 patients in New York City during the height of the pandemic.
28) Rez dogs
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English
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Malian loves spending time with her grandparents at their home on a Wabanaki reservation. She's there for a visit when, suddenly, all travel shuts down. There's a new virus making people sick, and Malian will have to stay with her grandparents for the duration. Everyone is worried about the pandemic, but Malian knows how to keep her family and community safe: She protects her grandparents, and they protect her. She doesn't go outside to play with...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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viii, 448 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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The COVID-19 crisis is the greatest shock to world order since World War II. Millions have been infected and killed. The economic crash caused by the pandemic is the worst since the Great Depression, with the International Monetary Fund estimating that it will cost over $9 trillion of global wealth in the next few years. Many will be left impoverished and hungry. Fragile states will be further hollowed out, creating conditions ripe for conflict and...
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CRC Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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1 online resource (xv, 305 pages) : color illustrations.
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English
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"Accurate estimation, diagnosis, and prevention of COVID-19 is a global challenge for healthcare organizations. Innovative measures can introduce and implement AI, and Mathematical Modeling applications. This book provides insight into the recent advances of applications, statistical methods, and mathematical modeling for the healthcare industry. This book covers the state-of-the-art applications of AI and Machine Learning in past epidemics, pandemics,...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
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vi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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The world you know is about to end-- will you be prepared for what comes next? By 2030, a new reality will take hold. There will be more grandparents than grandchildren; the middle-class in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa will outnumber the US and Europe combined; the global economy will be driven by the non-Western consumer for the first time in modern history. These, and other trends, will converge in the year 2030 and change everything you know about...
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O'Reilly Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (25 pages)
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English
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Can smartphone apps help track the spread of the novel coronavirus, privately and securely? In this report, Rob Pegoraro weighs the issue of whether mobile apps can help trace and then slow the spread of COVID-19 or will end up as just another episode of botched government procurement and application of technology. Apple and Google have recently devised a system to track COVID-19 infections anonymously using Bluetooth with iOS and Android smartphones....
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Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 59 min.)
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English
Description
Scott Anthony is quarantined in an apartment in Singapore. Luckily, the sovereign city-state and country's "future-back" approach has it well-positioned to manage this unprecedented global health crisis. Join Scott to find out what you-and the rest of the world-can learn from Singapore in these uncertain times. Recorded on April 6, 2020. See the original event page for resources for further learning or watch recordings of other past events . O'Reilly...
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Dial Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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341 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Maxine and Jonah meet in the canned goods aisle of the grocery store just as the state of California is going into lockdown. Max's part-time job as a personal grocery shopper is about to transform into a hellish gauntlet. Jonah's preexisting anxiety is about to become an epic daily struggle. Max, Jonah, and their friends live together but apart, through hijinks, humanity, and heartbreak. Differences of class, privilege, mental health, and sacrifice...
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The Pennsylvania State University Press/Graphic Mundi
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xii, 281 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 26 cm
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English
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"A collection of short comics about the COVID-19 pandemic. Diverse artists address disruptions in work, school, and family life as well as failures in public policy, racial biases, and systemic inequalities revealed by the pandemic"--
37) Touch: a novel
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English
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When the pandemic hits, Kristofer is forced to shutter his successful restaurant in Reykjavik, sending him into a spiral of uncertainty, even as his memory seems to be failing. But an uncanny bolt from the blue, a message from Miko Nakamura, a woman whom he'd known in the sixties when they were students in London, both inspires and rattles him, as he is drawn inexorably back into a love story that has marked him for life. Even as the pandemic upends...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten short stories written mostly over the last year, Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the streets, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged...
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Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xix, 524 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Making a powerful case that funding dangerous bioengineering in a totalitarian country is madness, the senator who has represented Kentucky since 2011 presents his indictment of the catastrophic failures of public health bureaucracy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Publisher
Welbeck
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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COVID-19 took everyone in the world by surprise. I mean, what exactly is it? How does it spread? What is a virus and are there others out there that we don't know about? Paul Ian Cross answers these questions, and more in this illustrated book filled with facts about what we know and don't know.
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