TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baldwin,Peter
ED  - ProQuest (Firm),
TI  - Fighting the first wave: why the coronavirus was tackled so differently across the globe 
SN  - 9781009006484
U1  - 616.2 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
KW  - COVID-19 (Disease)
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Electronic book available via the Ebook Central platform; Introduction : one threat, many responses -- Science, politics, and history : do they explain the variety of approaches to Covid-19? -- New dogs, old tricks : fighting Covid-19 with ancient preventive tactics -- The politics of prevention : how state and citizen Interacted, battling the virus -- What was done? : Act one of the pandemic -- Why the preventive playing field was not level : geography, prosperity, society -- Where and why science mattered : traditional Chinese medicine, herd immunity, asymptomatic carriers, superspreading, and masks -- From state to citizen : the individualization of public health -- Who is responsible for our health? : How prevention was enforced -- Difficult decisions in hard times : trade-offs between being safe and being solvent -- Conclusion : public health and public goods : the state in a post-pandemic world; Also available in print
N2  - Why did the world's nations fight the Covid-19 pandemic in such different ways and with such varying results?
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/parliamentuk/detail.action?docID=6531577
ER  -