Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comprehensive Guide

The COVID-19 outbreak has brought about unprecedented challenges, including institutional failures, media misinformation, and significant economic and social disruptions. This book aims to provide clarity and insight into the pandemic, helping readers understand its origins, the disease it causes, diagnostic tests, therapeutic measures, and preventive strategies like vaccines.

By applying basic science to the problems raised by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as vaccine development and herd immunity, this text prepares readers to better respond to future infectious diseases and pandemics. It also positively influences career choices within public health and offers an engaging and balanced treatment of the politicization of public health issues, especially COVID-19.

Key Features of the Book

• Demystifies the COVID-19 pandemic, providing succinct and straightforward information.
• Applies basic science to problems raised by the pandemic, such as vaccine development and herd immunity.
• Prepares readers to respond to future emerging infectious diseases and pandemics.
• Successfully used in college senior health sciences seminars.
• Offers an engaging and balanced treatment of the politicization of public health issues, especially COVID-19.

Related Titles for Further Reading

• COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2: The Science and Clinical Application of Conventional and Complimentary Treatments, edited by S. Goswami and C. Day.
• The COVID-19 Pandemic: The Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak, by T. K. Koley and M. Dhole.
• COVID-19, a two-volume set edited by J. M. Ryan.

Product Details

Publisher: CRC Press

Publication Date: December 16, 2022

Language: English

ISBN: 9781032316031, 9781000803150