Pandemic Inc

Author : J. David McSwane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982177756
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandemic, Inc. written by J. David McSwane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This startling, vital book deserves our attention.” —San Francisco Chronicle For fans of War Dogs and Bad Blood, an explosive look inside the rush to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic, from the award-winning ProPublica reporter who saw it firsthand. The United States federal government spent over $10 billion on medical protective wear and emergency supplies, yet as COVID-19 swept the nation, life-saving equipment such as masks, gloves, and ventilators was nearly impossible to find. In this brilliant nonfiction thriller, called “revelatory” by The Washington Post, award-winning investigative reporter J. David McSwane takes us behind the scenes to reveal how traders, contractors, and healthcare companies used one of the darkest moments in American history to fill their pockets. Determined to uncover how this was possible, he spent over a year on private jets and in secret warehouses, traveling from California to Chicago to Washington, DC, to interview both the most treacherous of profiteers and the victims of their crimes. Pandemic, Inc. is the story of the fraudster who signed a multi-million-dollar contract with the government to provide lifesaving PPE, and yet never came up with a single mask. The Navy admiral at the helm of the national hunt for additional medical resources. The Department of Health whistleblower who championed masks early on and was silenced by the government and conservative media. And the politician who callously slashed federal emergency funding and gutted the federal PPE stockpile. Winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, McSwane connects the dots between backdoor deals and the spoils systems to provide the definitive account of how this pandemic was so catastrophically mishandled. Shocking and monumental, Pandemic, Inc. exposes a system that is both deeply rigged, and singularly American.

Author : David Quammen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393066800
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic written by David Quammen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerginghuman diseases.

Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 150954612X
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandemic! written by Slavoj Žižek and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes and speculate on the profundity of its consequences? 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 diamonds. And when, according to Žižek, a new form of communism – the outlines of which can already be seen in the very heartlands of neoliberalism – may be the only way of averting a descent into global barbarism. Written with his customary brio and love of analogies in popular culture (Quentin Tarantino and H. G. Wells sit next to Hegel and Marx), Žižek provides a concise and provocative snapshot of the crisis as it widens, engulfing us all.

Author : Patrick Schwerdtfeger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949642407
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandemic, Inc. written by Patrick Schwerdtfeger and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandemic, Inc. offers a strategic roadmap for businesses navigating the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine. The book details eight accelerating trends that form a convenient acronym: S A L V A G E D.S:Self-sufficiencyA:AnalyticsL:LiquidityV:VirtualizationA:AutomationG:GovernmentE:Exponential ThinkingD:DecentralizationChange creates opportunity. Seize this moment! We have never needed business leadership more than we do today. This books shows you how to survive, rebuild, and thrive in the post-COVID-19 economy.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393881563
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Premonition: A Pandemic Story written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19. The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected. A thirteen-year-old girl’s science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. A local public-health officer uses her worm’s-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society. A secret team of dissenting doctors, nicknamed the Wolverines, has everything necessary to fight the pandemic: brilliant backgrounds, world-class labs, prior experience with the pandemic scares of bird flu and swine flu…everything, that is, except official permission to implement their work. Michael Lewis is not shy about calling these people heroes for their refusal to follow directives that they know to be based on misinformation and bad science. Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them. They never know for sure who else might be listening in.

Author : Patrick Schwerdtfeger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949642353
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandemic, Inc. written by Patrick Schwerdtfeger and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandemic, Inc. offers a strategic roadmap for businesses navigating the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine. The book details eight accelerating trends that form a convenient acronym: S A L V A G E D. S: Self-sufficiency A: Analytics L: Liquidity V: Virtualization A: Automation G: Government E: Exponential Thinking D: Decentralization Change creates opportunity. Seize this moment! We have never needed business leadership more than we do today. This books shows you how to survive, rebuild, and thrive in the post-COVID-19 economy. About the Author Patrick Schwerdtfeger is a business futurist and keynote speaker specializing in technology trends including artificial intelligence and blockchain. He's a regular speaker for Bloomberg TV and has lectured at numerous academic institutions including Stanford and Purdue Universities. Patrick has authored six books including Anarchy, Inc.: Profiting in a Decentralized World with Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain (Authority Publishing, 2018) and has spoken at hundreds of events around the world. He offers onsite and webinar-based programs for his clients.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1669390993
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of J. David McSwane's Pandemic, Inc. written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-25T22:59:00Z with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Robert Stewart Jr. was hired by the Department of Veterans Affairs to produce 6 million N95 respirators, medical-grade masks, which were in short supply. #2 Stewart’s aura seemed to be everything you’d want in a contractor handling a government contract. But his story was that he had 6 million N95 masks, which he claimed were stored in a Los Angeles warehouse with his name on them. #3 Stewart was given the contract to provide the government with N95 masks, which were the best available defense against the virus. He was given a 350 percent markup, which he planned to use to buy his own private jet. #4 I was to meet Stewart in Birmingham, where he was to deliver 6 million N95s by Sunday at midnight. But when I looked out the window as the plane ascended over my broken country, I thought of the devastation coming for it, and I knew the projections were correct.

Author : Karen Schrier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190926104
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We the Gamers written by Karen Schrier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining research-based perspectives and current examples including Minecraft and Animal Crossing : New Horizons, We the Gamers shows how games can be used in ethics, civics, and social studies education to inspire learning, critical thinking, and civic change.

Author : Patrick Schwerdtfeger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949642407
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandemic, Inc. written by Patrick Schwerdtfeger and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandemic, Inc. offers a strategic roadmap for businesses navigating the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine. The book details eight accelerating trends that form a convenient acronym: S A L V A G E D.S:Self-sufficiencyA:AnalyticsL:LiquidityV:VirtualizationA:AutomationG:GovernmentE:Exponential ThinkingD:DecentralizationChange creates opportunity. Seize this moment! We have never needed business leadership more than we do today. This books shows you how to survive, rebuild, and thrive in the post-COVID-19 economy.

Author : Andreas Musolff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350232718
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandemic and Crisis Discourse written by Andreas Musolff and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections about discourse practises dealing with public health issues. Situating crisis communication at the centre of societal and political debates about responses to the pandemic, this volume analyses the discursive strategies used in a variety of settings. Exploring how crisis discourse has become a part of managing the public health crisis itself, this book focuses on the communicative tasks and challenges for both speakers and their public audiences in seven areas: - establishment of discursive and political authority - official governmental and expert communication to the public - public understanding of government communication - legitimation of public health management as a 'war' - judging and blaming a collective other - cross-national comparison and rivalry - empathy and encouragement Covering global discourses from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and South America, and New Zealand, chapters use corpus-based data to cast light on these issues from a variety of languages. With crisis discourse already the object of fierce national and international debates about the appropriateness of specific communicative styles, information management and 'verbal hygiene', Pandemic and Crisis Discourse offers an authoritative intervention from language experts.