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How COVID-19 changed the world / the editors of Scientific American.

Summary:

COVID-19 has affected nearly every aspect of life--from short- and long-term health problems to how students attend school to the availability of milk in the grocery store. In this book, Scientific American explores how COVID has changed the world over the past two years: how it has disrupted society, accelerated research, and amplified the need for science and humanity. We look at endeavors that have been directly and dramatically transformed, such as disease testing and vaccine development, as well as some of the more unexpected impacts, such as on climate conferences and rocket launches.

Record details

ISBN: 1684169968
ISBN: 9781684169962
ISBN: 9781684169979
ISBN: 1684169976
Physical Description: 160 pages ; 23 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Educational Publishing, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (page 157) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

A high-speed scientific hive mind emerged from the COVID pandemic -- The pandemic set off a boom in diagnostics -- Mobile clinics can help reduce health inequity -- COVID revealed the fragility of American public health -- How COVID changed science -- The lab-leak theory of COVID's origin is not totally irrational -- A grassroots effort to fight misinformation during the pandemic -- To understand how science denial works, look to history -- Making vaccines is straightforward; Getting people to take then isn't -- How to debunk misinformation about COVID, vaccines, and masks -- How communication around COVID fuels a mistrust of science -- How the pandemic remade science journalism -- COVID-19 is like an x-ray of society -- COVID changed the world of work forever -- The pandemic deepened fault lines in American Society -- How COVID, inequality, and politics make a vicious syndemic -- If you think preparedness is expensive, the pandemic puts things in perspective -- People, not science , decide when a pandemic is over -- Pandemic year one saw a dramatic global rise in anxiety and depression -- COVID is driving a children's mental health emergency -- COVID has put the world at risk of prolonged grief disorder -- Inventive ways of delivering mental health care thrive during the pandemic -- COVID expanded the boundaries of personal space-maybe for good -- Expanding mental health care is a medical necessity -- The personality trait "intolerance of uncertainty" causes anguish during COVID -- COVID is here to stay -- How a virus exposed the myth of rugged individualism -- Pandemic-era research will pay off for years -- Some pandemic health habits deserve to stay - The devestating loss of grandparents among one million COVID dead -- There is nothing normal about one million people dead from COVID -- How each of us can prepare for the next pandemic -- Tons of COVID medical garbage threaten health -- Contagions worse than COVID will prevail if neglect of global public health continues.