COVID-19

Confronting a New World Risk

Jamie K. Wardman, Ragnar Löfstedt, Jamie K. Wardman, Ragnar Löfstedt

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781032326740
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000791143
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

This comprehensive book looks at COVID-19, along with other recent infectious disease outbreaks, with the broad aim of providing constructive lessons and critical reflections from across a wide range of perspectives and disciplinary interests within the risk analysis field.

The chapters in this edited volume probe the roles of risk communication, risk perception, and risk science in helping to manage the ever-growing pandemic that was declared a public health emergency of international concern in the beginning of 2020. A few chapters in the book also include relevant content discussing past disease outbreaks, such as Zika, Ebola and MERS-CoV. This book distils past and present knowledge, appraises current responses, introduces new ideas and data, and offers key recommendations, which will help illuminate different aspects of the global health crisis. It also explores how different constructive insights offered from a 'risk perspective' might inform decisions on how best to proceed in response as the pandemic continues.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Risk Research.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction – COVID-19: confronting a new world risk
• 1 COVID-19: reflections on trust, tradeoffs, and preparedness
• 2 The COVID-19 pandemic: how can risk science help?
• 3 Does the COVID-19 pandemic refute probability neglect?
• 4 COVID-19 infection and death rates: the need to incorporate causal explanations for the data and avoid bias in testing
• 5 Bayesian network analysis of Covid-19 data reveals higher infection prevalence rates and lower fatality rates than widely reported
• 6 Resilience in the face of uncertainty: early lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
• 7 Backing up emergency teams in healthcare and law enforcement organizations: strategies to socialize newcomers in the time of COVID-19
• 8 Comparative risk science for the coronavirus pandemic
• 9 Predictors of expressing and receiving information on social networking sites during MERS-CoV outbreak in South Korea
• 10 Public health emergency response coordination: putting the plan into practice
• 11 Outbreak! Socio-cognitive motivators of risk information sharing during the 2018 South Korean MERS-CoV epidemic
• 12 Risk communication in a double public health crisis: the case of Ebola and cholera in Ghana
• 13 From information to intervention: connecting risk communication to individual health behavior and community-level health interventions during the 2016 Zika outbreak
• 14 Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world
• 15 Mismanagement of Covid-19: lessons learned from Italy
• 16 The paradox of trust: perceived risk and public compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore
• 17 Managing the Covid-19 pandemic through individual responsibility: the consequences of a world risk society and enhanced ethopolitics
• 18 Be alarmed. Some reflections about the COVID-19 risk communication in Germany
• 19 Did the world overlook the media’s early warning of COVID-19?
• 20 Fact-checking as risk communication: the multi-layered risk of misinformation in times of COVID-19
• 21 Pandemic democracy: elections and COVID-19
• 22 Survival at the expense of the weakest? Managing modern slavery risks in supply chains during COVID-19
• 23 COVID-19 risk governance: drivers, responses and lessons to be learned
• 24 ‘A monstrous threat’: how a state of exception turns into a ‘new normal’
• 25 Recalibrating pandemic risk leadership: thirteen crisis ready strategies for COVID-19
• Index