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- The big one : how we must prepare for future deadly pandemics / by Osterholm, Michael T.,author.; Olshaker, Mark,1951-author.;
"The COVID-19 pandemic was the most devastating natural event in over a century, killing more than 7 million people around the globe, straining the fabric of societies internationally, and shaking the foundations of the global economy. And yet, as horrifying as the experience was, Covid-19 was not actually "the Big One" -- the dreaded potential pandemic that haunts the nightmares of epidemiologists and public health officials everywhere, and which will alter life across the world on every meaningful level unless we are ready to deal with it. Indeed, even as we learn to live with Covid-19 and continue to recover from its worst effects, the next pandemic is already lurking around the corner -- and it may very well be worse. In The Big One, founding director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker examine past pandemics, highlighting the ways societies both succeeded and failed to address them; trace the Covid-19 pandemic and evaluate how it was handled; and look to the future, projecting what the next pandemics might look like and what must be done to mitigate them. Drawing on years of high-level research as well as cutting-edge analysis and an innovative hypothetical scenario threaded throughout each chapter, The Big One is a gripping, comprehensive, and urgent wake-up call. Because Covid-19 was just a taste of what's to come. If we're going to survive the next big pandemic, we need to be prepared"--- Subjects: Communicable diseases.; Communicable diseases; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.; Epidemiology.; Pandemics.;
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- Will there ever be another you / by Lockwood, Patricia,author.;
"Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together -- of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and of her mind, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She's afraid of her own floorboards, and "WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON'T HURT ME" plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends, or more accurately, she doesn't know who they are. Has the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it mean she'll get to start over from scratch, a chance afforded to very few people? The very weave of herself seems to have loosened: time and memories pass straight through her body. "I'm sorry not to respond to your email," she writes, "but I live completely in the present now." The brain-shredding, phosphorescent story of one woman's dissolution and her attempt to create a new way of thinking, as well as a profound investigation into what keeps us alive in times of unprecedented disorientation and loss"--- Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Authors; COVID-19 (Disease); COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023; Estranged families; Grief; Mind and reality;
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- Eddington [videorecording] / by Phoenix, Joaquin,actor.; Aster, Ari,screenwriter,film director,film producer.; O'Connell, Deirdre(Actress),actor.; Stone, Emma,1988-actor.; Ward, Micheal,1995-actor.; Pascal, Pedro,actor.; Grimes, Luke,1984-actor.; Butler, Austin,1991-actor.; Collins, Clifton,Jr.,actor.; Belleau, William,1982-actor.; Hoeferle, Amelie,actor.; Videoville Showtime,film distributor.;
Joaquin Phoenix, Deirdre O'Connell, Emma Stone, Micheal Ward, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Austin Butler, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, Amelie Hoeferle.During the COVID-19 pandemic, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbour is pitted against neighbour in Eddington, N.M.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Dark comedy films.; Feature films.; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023; Sheriffs; Neighbors; Mayors; Man-woman relationships; Small cities;
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- Sacrament : a novel / by Straight, Susan,author.;
"In August 2020, a group of nurses are working in the ICU at a hospital in San Bernardino at the height of a Covid surge: Larette Embers, whose husband, Grief, is an animal control officer; Cherrise Martinez, whose husband died years ago in a car crash, and whose daughter Raquel has been sent to a Coachella date farm to live with her great-aunt to avoid the virus; and Marisol Manalang, born in the Philippines but based in Sacramento. To safeguard their families, the nurses are living in a makeshift RV camp close to the hospital; they share food and cigarettes yet keep their work private. For this is a country in crisis, and they are assisting strangers at the edge of death with infinite tenderness and growing desperation. As the nurses struggle with the skyrocketing number of sick patients, Cherisse's daughter goes missing. Grief's friend Johnny Frias, a California Highway Patrol officer, joins the search to find her, and the resulting journey leads to new love and loss, pushing all our characters to their breaking points"--- Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023; Families; Friendship; Hospitals; Intensive care units; Man-woman relationships; Missing children; Nurses; Traffic police;
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- Another bone-swapping event / by Fox, Brad(Bradley),author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Brad Fox takes us on a mind-bending exploration of meaning, matter, and plants, stemming from a 10-day trip that lasted a year in the high jungles of northeastern Peru"--- Subjects: Fox, Brad (Bradley); Ayahuasca ceremony; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023; Medical tourism; Psychotropic plants; Traditional medicine;
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- Tom Lake [text (large print)] : a novel / by Patchett, Ann,author.;
Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Actors; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; Families; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Mothers and daughters; Orchards; Storytelling;
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