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World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One (vuoden 2021 painos)

Tekijä: Sanjay Gupta M.D. (Tekijä), Kristin Loberg (Primary Contributor)

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"CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD, offers an accessible, data-packed answer to our biggest questions about Covid-19: What have we learned about this pandemic and how can we prepare for--or prevent--the next one? As America's favorite frontline Covid-19 health journalist, Dr. Sanjay Gupta has barely left his primetime seat in his makeshift studio basement since the pandemic began (other than to perform brain surgery). He's had the insider of insider access to the drama's unfolding, including exclusive conversations with the world's top public health experts and behind-the-scenes scientists racing to find treatments and cures. And now he's sharing what he's learned in a book that will answer not only all our questions about what happened, but also about how our world will change in the years ahead, even once we're back to "normal." Gupta argues that we need to prepare for a new era where pandemics will be more frequent, and possibly even more deadly. As the doctor who's been holding America's hand through the crisis with compassion, clarity, and well-earned wisdom, he gives you the unvarnished story behind the pandemic, including insights about the novel virus's behavior, and offers practical tools to ready ourselves for what lies ahead. He answers critical questions: Can we stamp out the virus for good (and if not, how do we live with it)? Should we put our parents in a nursing home? Where should we live? What should we stockpile? What should we know before taking a trip? Does it make sense to spend more on health insurance to deal with any long-term effects? How do you decide when it's safe to go to a public pool or schedule elective surgery? What should Covid survivors know about protecting their future health? What if you become a long-hauler with chronic health challenges stemming? World War C will give you hope for the future along with real information that leaves you more resilient and secure"--… (lisätietoja)
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Teoksen nimi:World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One
Kirjailijat:Sanjay Gupta M.D. (Tekijä)
Muut tekijät:Kristin Loberg (Primary Contributor)
Info:Simon & Schuster (2021), 304 pages
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World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One (tekijä: Sanjay Gupta)

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Important central point: pace Trumpers (I’m free! I’m free to infect people! Pandemic doesn’t matter to me, nor does my granny’s early and needlessly painful death!) and conspiracy theorists (the aliens who shot JFK are at it again, and probably the pope is involved, and the Roman Empire, spreading their lies!), the advice of qualified medical scientists, use masks, follow up to date social distancing restrictions, take the vaccine, are necessary and appropriate. Fighting the pandemic is the necessary and appropriate responsibility of medical science and the government.

Stereotypical conservative talking points:

During his term of office George W. Bush tried to prepare for future pandemics

China’s militaristic dictatorship tried to hush up the virus

Stereotypical liberal talking points:

People of color in the US suffered disproportionately from the pandemic

Trump was a terrible leader

Many other democratic highly developed countries had a more effective pandemic response

—What in France they might call the “yellow jackets” (anti-centrist, any crazy person as long as they’re…. Cray cray all day day!) might be against medical science and other realities of modern life, but the reality is, whatever the limitations of doctors and their knowledge bound and limited by the human condition, we cannot find a more meaningful life by begrudging others their ability to help us, and to help us not unwittingly infect and harm others.

…. Other thoughts: Although I’m glad that we have important doctors and important people to manage the pandemic for me, (and apparently they managed it better for me than for my Black and Latino peers), I am struck by how little I, as a private ordinary person, can know or change about a pandemic. Thus, although I’m glad I eventually read this book as an overview of important ideas like, “sometimes the unexpected happens”, for example, I’m glad that I didn’t follow the great majority of the COVID journalism at the time, (although I obeyed the rules imposed for my and others’ benefit), and if it ever happens again I’ll try to incorporate a few new things like 12 step zoom meetings (going to college, no, I hate college), and working on my chess game, but fundamentally it would (I assume) be the same—at least in so far as even unexpected events can’t make me want to become a shallow, unorganized news junkie. “Factoid, five o’clock!” Somebody needs to organize these factoids into a book so that I can understand and (lol) catalog.

…. I’m glad I got the vaccine, even if I know I can’t do battle with the anti-vaxx crowd. (Sorry Sanjay.) People don’t respect me, thus limiting efforts to influence and convert. I’d be like Paul in prison. “Almost thou persuadest me to take the vaccine, but, I don’t know…. Oh, I know what it is. You have no money.” Although that’s funny because it’s like, Fauci’s probably rich! Somebody get the garrote and let’s set up an ambush! —You’ve got to have the appropriate amount of money, not too much or too little, like, more than me, but in the same town as me.

But if doctors started taking social psych classes because of this, that would be a good thing. “No one I know would believe it unless it came from a reputable source! What influence could junky stuff have in such a nice place like this?”

—enter interesting summation of my borderlands wanderings here

…. Re: general health (I can’t breathe! I’m obese!)

I have this social fear of weighing less than the absolute maximum I can weigh without going overweight (174), because I’m afraid that people will think I look anorexic or something, and I’m not even a girl.

…. I can’t imagine what COVID would have been like if I had been actively schizophrenic (symptomatic). You’re delusional—you think it’s all a reflection of what you’re thinking, even world events, and reality isn’t real; it’s just a poker game that God plays with the Devil, that I anxiously hover over and watch.

I don’t know if anybody’s telling those stories, schizophrenic delusions in the time of the coronavirus, but I would not have liked living it. I didn’t even like having my whole social world collapse into just conversations with surly teenagers over the college zoom meetings—sorry teenagers, yeah, I would not have liked the whole “want to meet people” time of my life to happen when being indoors with other people was impossible, even before I totally lost my mind…. Although it seems like college is divided into the academics with a bad attitude towards everyone and everything, and the lazy drunkards, so fuck that place. Expensive, toxic mental health drain, lol. Keep writing books, guys! I love you from a distance! From a great, distance!

…. Although I never did find someone, bonding and even communication itself can be difficult for me, everyday interpersonal stuff, so I think that’s Always plagued my school career, even in high school, or actually even as a youngster. (My brother is the one who seems to be good with people, and he’s certainly the one with a degree from a good school, not me. I don’t like people, really—I mean, I love people, but they frustrate me. I can deal with up to one other person at a time, with an unspecified cap on non-alone time…. Incidentally there probably were many people more bothered by the pandemic than me, with my personality, but it was just so damn long, such an extreme experience.)

But it is crazy, you know.

—Pleasure or status?
—Um…. Truth? Humility? Service?
—*laughs*

Although I know that not all of our doctors are Nazis, health disparities notwithstanding.

…. I talk too much, but, just to be dramatic, and to provide balance, (youth/age), never forget that the Nazis didn’t like the majority of old people who are old and weak, only the minority who are old and fabulously rich.

I’ve taken to calling normal people who happen to be named “Donald”, “Dee”, in my reviews, so. (Yes, I’m crazy. But the world—the world is crazier.)
  goosecap | Jul 10, 2022 |
As COVID-19 cases increase for the first time where I am, I feel it’s important to read about the experiences of others to navigate a way through this pandemic. Sure, I’ve kept up with the news across Australia and internationally but it’s also useful in my opinion to revisit where we started from. World War C offers insight into America’s experience with the COVID-19 pandemic, from the first cases to vaccinations and a reduction of cases. Notably – and definitely not the author’s fault – the narrative stops before global Delta outbreaks and the emergence of the Omicron variant. Consider this volume 1 of the pandemic chronicles.

Perhaps because of my own situation, I found the introductory chapter on COVID-19 rather overdramatic. It highlights the numerous awful things that have happened and what it was like confronting a pathogen we didn’t know what to do with. It’s very scary and given the multiple oral and intravenous COVID-19 treatments now available, it’s a chapter largely forgotten (thank goodness). I also want to nitpickingly point out that ribavirin is a very real medication, not fictional as mentioned. (But no, it most definitely does not cure COVID-19). But as the book progressed through the period of COVID-19 from late 2019/early 2020 to early 2021, it’s a testament to how much has happened and been achieved. I felt these sections were toned down a bit, or perhaps I was more comfortable about science progressing towards giving clinicians options to treat COVID-19.

The COVID-19 journey makes up about half the book with the remainder devoted to becoming P.R.O.O.F. I found these chapters highly relevant, for example, how to calculate risk when going out when COVID-19 is prevalent in the community. Some of the information on diet and exercise is common sense, but in these muddled times it helps to be reminded that healthy food will make you feel better long term. The section also covers the author’s experiences with other pandemics and epidemics such as Ebola (possibly the most scary disease ever) and H1N1 influenza.

The chapters are easy to read and contain references to both news articles as well as scholarly articles. Complex concepts, such as how mRNA vaccines work and how viruses spread are delivered in easy to understand bitesize chunks. This is a sound summary of the pandemic so far, combining how to minimise risk for yourself and others.

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  birdsam0610 | Feb 20, 2022 |
A well-researched, well-documented, and well-written history and analysis of covid from its beginnings to the present [Oct, 2021] written for the layperson by a respected brain surgeon and credible national medical reporter.
Gupta answers a lot of questions you may not have known you had and gives excellent insights and advice on how to deal with the pandemic on personal, national and international levels.
Besides being informative and helpful, I found it riveting reading. No bombast, just the facts. Recommended reading for all. - pb. ( )
  PitcherBooks | Oct 8, 2021 |
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"CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD, offers an accessible, data-packed answer to our biggest questions about Covid-19: What have we learned about this pandemic and how can we prepare for--or prevent--the next one? As America's favorite frontline Covid-19 health journalist, Dr. Sanjay Gupta has barely left his primetime seat in his makeshift studio basement since the pandemic began (other than to perform brain surgery). He's had the insider of insider access to the drama's unfolding, including exclusive conversations with the world's top public health experts and behind-the-scenes scientists racing to find treatments and cures. And now he's sharing what he's learned in a book that will answer not only all our questions about what happened, but also about how our world will change in the years ahead, even once we're back to "normal." Gupta argues that we need to prepare for a new era where pandemics will be more frequent, and possibly even more deadly. As the doctor who's been holding America's hand through the crisis with compassion, clarity, and well-earned wisdom, he gives you the unvarnished story behind the pandemic, including insights about the novel virus's behavior, and offers practical tools to ready ourselves for what lies ahead. He answers critical questions: Can we stamp out the virus for good (and if not, how do we live with it)? Should we put our parents in a nursing home? Where should we live? What should we stockpile? What should we know before taking a trip? Does it make sense to spend more on health insurance to deal with any long-term effects? How do you decide when it's safe to go to a public pool or schedule elective surgery? What should Covid survivors know about protecting their future health? What if you become a long-hauler with chronic health challenges stemming? World War C will give you hope for the future along with real information that leaves you more resilient and secure"--

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