Full Description
This book is useful for administrators of different levels involved in counteracting COVID-19, surveillance professionals, clinicians, researchers specializing in epidemiology, microbiology, and infectious diseases, and politicians / legislators engaged in public health sector.
We use an innovative approach of combining both epidemiological and sociological analyses, as the very problem is mainly an issue of correct governance.
A team of authors from Europe, Russia and China summarizes their experience and knowledge useful for containing SARS-CoV-2 and overcoming social and managerial consequences of the pandemic.
The editors are sure that sharing our different experience would help to elaborate necessary strategies, protocols, and principles that may be effectively applied in the future to avoid dramatic consequences of not only COVID-19 but also any possible epidemiological hazards for people and medicine.
Contents
Using Experience in Previous Epidemics for Effective Containing SARS-CoV-2: Spanish Influenza 1918 and Beyond.- Coronavirus Infections of Animals and Humans: Biological and Epidemiological Properties of Causative Agents.- SARS-CoV-2 Zoonotic Potential: Current Knowledge and Hypotheses.- SARS-CoV-2 as Part of Acute Respiratory Infection. Russian Experience in Spring and Summer 2020.- What Social Policy Is Better: Lockdowns or Borders Closings during SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic?
