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Contagion Next Time

The Contagion Next Time

By Sandro Galea

With compassion, authority, and empathy, The Contagion Next Time offers a roadmap for those who witnessed the terrible convergence of two pivotal forces in 2020--the COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for racial justice in America--and wondered how we could ensure we never end up here again. Leading voice for health Sandro Galea shows us how we can strengthen the foundational forces that shape our nation before the next crisis becomes an all-consuming conflagration.

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Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Publish Date: 11/01/2021
Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780197576427
ISBN-10: 0197576427
Language: Eng

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How can we create a healthier world and prevent the crisis next time?

In a few short months, COVID-19 devastated the world and, in particular, the United States. It infected millions, killed hundreds of thousands, and effectively made the earth stand still. Yet America was already in poor health before COVID-19 appeared. Racism, marginalization, socioeconomic inequality--our failure to address these forces left us vulnerable to COVID-19 and the ensuing global health crisis it became. Had we tackled these challenges twenty years ago, after the outbreak of SARS, perhaps COVID-19 could have been quickly contained. Instead, we allowed our systems to deteriorate. Following on the themes of his award-winning publication Well, Sandro Galea's The Contagion Next Time articulates the foundational forces shaping health in our society and how we can strengthen them to prevent the next outbreak from becoming a pandemic. Because while no one could have predicted that a pandemic would strike when it did, we did know that a pandemic would strike, sooner or later. We're still not ready for the next pandemic. But we can be--we must be. In lyrical prose, The Contagion Next Time challenges all of us to tackle the deep-rooted obstacles preventing us from becoming a truly vibrant and equitable nation, reminding us of what we've seemed to have forgotten: that our health is a public good worth protecting.

About the Author

Sandro Galea is Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. He has been named an "epidemiology innovator" by Time and one of the "World's Most Influential Scientific Minds" by Thomson Reuters.

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