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Covid-19 : A History.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Canadian Essentials SeriesPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (233 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780228015086
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Covid-19DDC classification:
  • 614.5924144
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- COVID-19 -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: COVID-19 Unmasked -- Part One | The First Wave -- 1 It Begins -- 2 COVID-19 Comes to North America -- 3 Le Tour du Monde: Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Antipodes -- Part Two | History and Context -- 4 Cause: Germs, Viruses, Social Determinants, and Ecology -- 5 Testing and Tracking -- 6 Controls and Their Side Effects -- 7 Treatments -- 8 Vaccines -- Part Three | The Following Waves, and Beyond -- 9 Analyzing the Spread: Statistics, Damn Statistics, and Lies -- 10 Beyond the Numbers -- 11 Vaccine Wars -- 12 Omicron and the Origins -- Conclusion: Looking Backward, Hoping Forward -- Index.
Summary: COVID-19: A History presents a global history of the virus, with a focus on Canada. Jacalyn Duffin's broad approach ranges from medical interventions, such as the development of tests, treatments, and vaccines, to the practical politics behind quarantines, barrier technologies, lockdowns, and social and financial supports.
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Cover -- COVID-19 -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: COVID-19 Unmasked -- Part One | The First Wave -- 1 It Begins -- 2 COVID-19 Comes to North America -- 3 Le Tour du Monde: Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Antipodes -- Part Two | History and Context -- 4 Cause: Germs, Viruses, Social Determinants, and Ecology -- 5 Testing and Tracking -- 6 Controls and Their Side Effects -- 7 Treatments -- 8 Vaccines -- Part Three | The Following Waves, and Beyond -- 9 Analyzing the Spread: Statistics, Damn Statistics, and Lies -- 10 Beyond the Numbers -- 11 Vaccine Wars -- 12 Omicron and the Origins -- Conclusion: Looking Backward, Hoping Forward -- Index.

COVID-19: A History presents a global history of the virus, with a focus on Canada. Jacalyn Duffin's broad approach ranges from medical interventions, such as the development of tests, treatments, and vaccines, to the practical politics behind quarantines, barrier technologies, lockdowns, and social and financial supports.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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