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COVID-19 - Hugh Pennington

COVID-19

The Postgenomic Pandemic

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
140 Seiten
2022
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-5215-3 (ISBN)
CHF 22,65 inkl. MwSt
Within days of the first reports of patients suffering from a mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan, scientists in China had produced a complete genetic sequence of the virus and confirmed that it was a novel SARS-like coronavirus. The genetic sequence was deposited in a public database, making the genetic code available to scientists anywhere in the world. The result was that weeks before the WHO declared the outbreak a global public health emergency and months before COVID-19 was formally designated a pandemic, virologists around the world were already studying the protein spikes on the virus and designing vaccines, which were developed much more quickly, and turned out to be much more effective, than even the most optimistic had predicted. All of this was possible because a biological revolution had taken place a decade earlier: the world had moved into the postgenomic era.

 

In this book, the distinguished microbiologist Hugh Pennington argues that COVID-19 is the first ‘postgenomic pandemic’ – that is, the first pandemic to sweep the world after the postgenomic era was initiated in 2008.  Pennington explains the science behind this crucial development and shows how it has revolutionized our ways of understanding and dealing with pandemics, including the pandemic that brought our world to its knees.

Hugh Pennington is Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen. He has worked for the UK, Scottish and Welsh governments as an expert on microbiology and food safety, and was a founder member of the World Food Programme Technical Advisory Group.

Acknowledgements

Foreword

1 The Postgenomic Age; its antecedents

2 Coronaviruses, the beginning

3 COVID-19, the disease

4 Origins. December 2019- January 2020

5 Fangcangs and Nightingales. February-April 2020

6 Test test test!    March 2020

7 The Epidemiologic Transition

8 Outbreaks - learning in real time

9 Whole Genome Sequencing

10 Variants

11 Vaccines

12 Pandemics

13 The Future

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 137 x 213 mm
Gewicht 204 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Infektiologie / Immunologie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10 1-5095-5215-4 / 1509552154
ISBN-13 978-1-5095-5215-3 / 9781509552153
Zustand Neuware
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