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"COVID-19: The Search for a Vaccine" is a series of podcasts which throws light on the work of the UK's Vaccine Taskforce in co-ordinating and expediting efforts to protect the UK against COVID-19 through vaccination as quickly as possible. The series looks at the most promising research; the different approaches to producing a vaccine; and how suitable vaccines are identified and acquired. What are the greatest obstacles? What steps are being taken to ensure sufficient manufacturing capacity? Working at speed, how can we be sure that trials – and any vaccine - are safe? These and other ...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. September 11, 2001, the financial collapse of 2008 and - most of all - COVID-19. Each was an asymmetrical threat, different from anything the world had experienced before. Fareed Zakaria...

Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World: We live in a moment when the greatest act of love is to stay distant from the object of your affection. When governments renowned for ruthless cuts in public spending can suddenly conjure up trillions. When toilet paper becomes a commodity as precious as...

Longlisted for the National Business Book Award Where will the world go after COVID-19? CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs Darrell Bricker's prescient and timely new book has the insights and the data to understand what we are going through and why, and who we still are despite the disruption. While...

COVID-19 is the biggest public health and economic disaster of our time. It has posed the same threat across the globe, yet countries have responded very differently and some have clearly fared much better than others. Peter Baldwin uncovers the reasons why in this definitive account of the global politics of pandemic. He shows that how nations responded depended above all on the political tools available—how firmly could the authorities order citizens' lives and how willingly would they be obeyed? 

The Times Best Politics and Current Affairs Books of the Year An entertaining and revealing history of modern British politics from Steve Richards, broadcaster, journalist, and author of The Prime Ministers We Never Had. Every few weeks in British politics, a columnist will reach for the word...

Spannend wie ein Thriller - Adam Tooze beschreibt unsere Welt im radikalen Wandel. Adam Tooze erzählt in seinem atemberaubenden neuen Hörbuch die Geschichte der zwölf Monate vom Januar 2020 bis Januar 2021. Am Anfang gibt Xi Jinping der Weltöffentlichkeit bekannt, dass sich in China ein neuer tödlicher Virus ausbreitet. Am Ende zieht Joe Biden als Nachfolger von Donald Trump ins Weiße Haus ein. Dazwischen liegen die Schockwellen einer verheerenden Pandemie, die keinen Kontinent, kein Land und keine Bevölkerung ungeschoren lässt.

Brought to you by Penguin. One of our most essential political thinkers offers a vital account of democracy in the twenty-first century Everyone knows that democracy is in trouble, but do we know what democracy actually is? Political philosopher Jan-Werner Müller, author of the widely acclaimed...

An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases -- and the panic and corruption that make them worse. Throughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million...

Pediatri e medici di base per i vaccini agli under 16. Oggi il via libera a Pfizer, di Michele Bocci; I pediatri: "I ragazzi correranno a immunizzarsi, ma c'è l'incognita dei genitori no vax", di Elena Dusi; Covid, da maturandi a vaccinati a testa alta e senza ansie: "Noi, tutelati dallo Stato", di Paolo di Paolo; Covid, Fontana: "Pronti a vaccinare dai 12 anni. Cadono le accuse false contro di noi", di Emanuele Lauria; La campagna di giugno e la sfida di Figliuolo: convincere i giovani a vaccinarsi per il mese della spallata, di Michele Bocci.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'In the twenty-first century, infectious disease seemed like a nuisance, not like a mortal threat' Just as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so The Plague Year will become the defining...

Si scriveranno tante storie della pandemia, ma questa è una controstoria. Diranno che siamo vittime, ma non siamo senza colpe. Diranno che l'isolamento ci ha salvato, ma è stato una selezione. Ha tagliato fuori gli anziani." "Stiamo attraversando un'epidemia e curiamo quelli che costano meno, lasciamo perdere i vecchi, perché costano di più. Distinguiamo tra le morti 'inaccettabili', perché i pazienti sono giovani e intelligenti, e le morti 'accettabili', perché i malati sono vecchi, hanno altre patologie, o sono dementi.