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The COVID-19 Pandemic
A Global High-Tech Challenge at the Interface of Science, Politics, and Illusions
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eBook - ePub
The COVID-19 Pandemic
A Global High-Tech Challenge at the Interface of Science, Politics, and Illusions
About this book
The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global High-Tech Challenge at the Interface of Science, Politics, and Illusions discusses COVID-19 as the first pandemic in the Internet era and our current reality of continuous reports, news, and updates. Since its beginning, we were daily bombarded with news of what was happening around the world. There was no global political leadership. The United States was politically partially paralyzed. Russia and China hoped to gain diplomatic profile worldwide, but their vaccines are of limited efficacy, and trust in their clinical data is rightly low. The European Union did not order enough vaccines in time, but sued a large manufacturer for delivery delays. Now it is setting up yet another bureaucratic institution. At least the pharmaceutical or life science industry paved the way out, but is not enthusiastically praised for it. It would be too easy and superficial to blame mistakes of governments and leaders on stupidity. Idiocy exists, but we have to go deeper to understand how illusions and blind spots in today's common perception and science, inertia, arrogance, conflicts of interest, competition of individuals, and states and institutions for public recognition have contributed to a multitude of flawed assessments and direct mistakes. Healthcare professionals and anyone interested in an in-depth understanding of humankind's response to the COVID-19 challenge will not get around the key conclusions of this book.
- Outlines key elements of modern civilization, public health, and drug and vaccine development on the background of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Discusses the historical roots of separate drug approval of vaccines and drugs in administratively classified "children" (of whom many are bodily mature long before their 16th or 18th birthday), and why the belated approval of vaccines against COVID-19 in minors is not based on science, but on blurs and conflicts of interest
- Outlines key elements we need to address to become better prepared for future global health challenges. In the first place, we do not need new institutions, but to overcome intellectual barriers and blind spots
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Chapter 1 : Introduction
- Chapter 2 : We are no longer hunters and gatherers. Societies, states, values, and healthcare today
- Chapter 3 : Development of drugs and vaccines
- Chapter 4 : COVID-19—The disease
- Chapter 5 : Russian and Chinese vaccines
- Chapter 6 : The European Union (EU) response to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Chapter 7 : COVID-19 vaccines global access (COVAX) and more
- Chapter 8 : International healthcare structures and COVID-19
- Chapter 9 : Low-tech and high-tech challenges. Accidents and disasters. Technical and scientific progress and its perception by science and the public
- Chapter 10 : Basic research, applied research, and the real world
- Chapter 11 : Conflicts of interest and the self-picture of medicine and scientists
- Chapter 12 : Vaccination hesitancy
- Chapter 13 : Social inequality, developing countries, and COVID-19
- Chapter 14 : Politics, illusions, websites, and the real world
- Chapter 15 : Global warming, Armageddon warnings, and the COVID-19 pandemic
- Chapter 16 : China and Russia are giants on feet of clay
- Chapter 17 : Conclusions and outlook
- Index
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