How many people must die from pandemics before the world learns?doi:10.1002/gch2.1011AbstractHoffman, Steven J.John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Global Challenges
International institutions should be as equal as they claim to be, especially since many of them assert superordinate normative authority based on having egalitarian governance structures. However, when defining equality with respect to states' real-world influence in determining substantive outcomes, it ...
How many people must die from pandemics before the world learns?doi:10.1002/gch2.1011Steven J. HoffmanGlobal Strategy LabGlobal Challenges
Throughout history there have been a number of major pandemics; in fact, almost every recorded civilization has been affected by these outbreaks. From smallpox and tuberculosis to the Bubonic Plague and major flu outbreaks, pandemics are a very real concern, even in our modern age of medicine....
Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
The majority of pandemics have been due to the evolution of an animal pathogen to a human pathogen. So, the real threat that faces humanity is the continued sharing of spaces between animals who carry these viruses, such as chickens and pigs, and humans. In the case of several near-pandemi...
Soon after the first cases of COVID-19 were publically reported in Wuhan, China in late December 2019, the disease became one of the most severe pandemics in the twenty-first century. In about a year, there were over 100 million confirmed COVID-19 infection cases and 2 million deaths ...
Pandemics in global and historical perspective 2022, Globalizations View all citing articles on Scopus 1 Among these mentioned previous epidemics, only the H1N1 was declared by WHO as a pandemic in May 2009, for which many Member States had developed detailed pandemic plans describing the public hea...
As functions of entertainment, pandemics are great!But should the fantasy become a reality or a worldwide epidemic disease manifest, it won’t be fun to watch.People close to you will probably die. The social order of your community may start to break down into violence, looting, and riots...
Pandemics and other public health crises typically attract a great deal of media attention, and some scholars have argued that they are prime examples of “media hypes.” That was certainly true of the 2009 pandemic, which in several countries became the biggest news story of that year. But ...