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This expanded, updated, and completely revised edition of The COVID-19 Catastrophe is the authoritative guide to a global health crisis that has consumed the world. Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinises the actions taken by governments as they sought to contain the novel coronavirus. He shows that indecision and disregard for scientific evidence has led many political leaders to preside over hundreds of thousands of needless deaths and the worst global economic crisis for three centuries. This new edition provides a systematic discussion of the pandemic’s course, national responses, more transmissible mutant variants of the virus, and the launch of the world’s largest ever vaccination programme. Only now are we beginning to understand the full scale of the COVID-19 crisis. We need to learn the lessons of this pandemic, and we need to learn them fast, because the next pandemic may arrive sooner than we think.

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This expanded, updated, and completely revised edition of The COVID-19 Catastrophe is the authoritative guide to a global health crisis that has consumed the world. Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinises the actions taken by governments as they sought to contain the novel coronavirus. He shows that indecision and disregard for scientific evidence has led many political leaders to preside over hundreds of thousands of needless deaths and the worst global economic crisis for three centuries. This new edition provides a systematic discussion of the pandemic’s course, national responses, more transmissible mutant variants of the virus, and the launch of the world’s largest ever vaccination programme. Only now are we beginning to understand the full scale of the COVID-19 crisis. We need to learn the lessons of this pandemic, and we need to learn them fast, because the next pandemic may arrive sooner than we think.

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Covid-19, la catástrofe es el análisis de una crisis de salud global que ha consumido al mundo. Richard Horton, director de la revista médica The Lancet, analiza aquí la respuesta dada a esta emergencia sanitaria por los diferentes gobiernos en su intento por contener el nuevo coronavirus. Expone los errores de muchos líderes políticos y sus asesores científicos, que permitieron que ocurrieran cientos de miles de muertes innecesarias y la peor crisis económica mundial en tres siglos.Se supone que vivimos en una época en que la especie humana se ha convertido en la influencia dominante sobre el medio ambiente, pero la Covid-19 ha revelado la fragilidad de nuestras sociedades y la rapidez con que nuestros sistemas pueden venirse abajo. Tenemos que aprender de esta pandemia, y aprender rápido, porque la próxima puede llegar antes de lo que pensamos.A partir de sus conocimientos científicos y médicos, Horton explica las medidas que deberían ponerse en marcha sin demora, a escala nacional e internacional, para impedir que vuelva a ocurrir otra catástrofe de este tipo.

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