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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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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?

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.

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...

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.