Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science
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Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Science & Math, Medical Books, Politics & Social Sciences
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Science & Math, Medical Books, Politics & Social Sciences
Book Type: Hardcover
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I have not yet seen the book and probably will not read it because I found Jerome Groopman's essay reviewing it to be satisfy my interest (The New Yorker, p. 55 4/5/2021 'Beyond the Vaccine').
Dr. Hotez opens by sharing with readers that public health folks were pleased with the success of vaccination campaigns that sharply reduced the incidence of smallpox, polio, diptheria, whooping cough, and tetanus. But here we are.
"He passionately insists that we cannot prevent pandemics in isolation from wider global currents. He identifies a cluster of non-medical drivers of deadly outbreaks--war, political instability, human migration, poverty, urbanization, anti-science and nationalist sentiment, and climate change--and maintains that advances in biomedicine must be accompanied by concerted action on these geopolitical matters." Sadly, this century has already brought exemplars such as Syria.
The reviewer ends by sharing with us Dr. Hotez's solution: vaccine diplomacy, and reminds readers of the trials undertaken in the USSR when Dr. Sabin was developing his polio vaccine.
Dr. Hotez opens by sharing with readers that public health folks were pleased with the success of vaccination campaigns that sharply reduced the incidence of smallpox, polio, diptheria, whooping cough, and tetanus. But here we are.
"He passionately insists that we cannot prevent pandemics in isolation from wider global currents. He identifies a cluster of non-medical drivers of deadly outbreaks--war, political instability, human migration, poverty, urbanization, anti-science and nationalist sentiment, and climate change--and maintains that advances in biomedicine must be accompanied by concerted action on these geopolitical matters." Sadly, this century has already brought exemplars such as Syria.
The reviewer ends by sharing with us Dr. Hotez's solution: vaccine diplomacy, and reminds readers of the trials undertaken in the USSR when Dr. Sabin was developing his polio vaccine.
