TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferguson, Niall.
TI  - Doom: the politics of catastrophe
SN  - 978-0241488447
U1  - 362.196 FER 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - COVID-19 (Disease)--History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why?
ER  -