Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe

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Peter Baldwin

Brand: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781316518335

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COVID-19 is the biggest public health and economic disaster of our time. It has posed the same threat across the globe, yet countries have responded very differently and some have clearly fared much better than others. Peter Baldwin uncovers the reasons why in this definitive account of the global politics of pandemic. He shows that how nations responded depended above all on the political tools available - how firmly could the authorities order citizens lives and how willingly would they be obeyed? In Asia, nations quarantined the infected and their contacts. In the Americas and Europe they shut down their economies, hoping to squelch the viruss spread. Others, above all Sweden, responded with a light touch, putting their faith in social consensus over coercion. Whether citizens would follow their leaders requests and how soon they would tire of their demands were crucial to hopes of taming the pandemic.

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Brand Cambridge University Press

Reference 90395

EAN13 9781316518335

ISBN 9781316518335

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Publication date: 2021
Issue number: 1
Cover: hard cover
Pages count: 392
Dimensions (mm): 159.00 x 235.00
Weight (g): 710

Introduction:: One Threat, Many Responses; 1. Science, Politics, and History:: Do They Explain the Variety of Approaches to Covid-19?; 2. New Dogs, Old Tricks:: Fighting Covid-19 with Ancient Preventive Tactics; 3. The Politics of Prevention:: How State and Citizen Interacted, Battling the Virus; 4. What Was Done? Act One of the Pandemic; 5. Why the Preventive Playing Field Was Not Level:: Geography, Prosperity, Society; 6. Where and Why Science Mattered:: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Herd Immunity, Asymptomatic Carriers, Superspreading, and Masks; 7. From State to Citizen:: The Individualization of Public Health; 8. Who is Responsible for Our Health? How Prevention was Enforced; 9. Difficult Decisions in Hard Times:: Trade-offs between Being Safe and Solvent; Conclusion:: Public Health and Public Goods:: The State in a Post-Pandemic World; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.