The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again

The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest science policy failure in a generation. We knew this was coming. Warnings about the threat of a new pandemic have been made repeatedly since the 1980s and it was clear in January that a dangerous new virus was causing a devastating human tragedy in China. And yet the world ignored the warnings. Why?In this short and hard-hitting book, Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinizes the actions that government...