COVID-19 pandemic a global high-tech challenge at the interface of science, politics, and illusions Rose, Klaus 1953- creator ScienceDirect (Online service) text Electronic books. enk London, UK Academic Press 2022 monographic eng remote 1 online resource The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global High-Tech Challenge at the Interface of Science, Politics, and Illusions discusses COVID-19 as the first pandemic in the Internet era and our current reality of continuous reports, news, and updates. Since its beginning, we were daily bombarded with news of what was happening around the world. There was no global political leadership. The United States was politically partially paralyzed. Russia and China hoped to gain diplomatic profile worldwide, but their vaccines are of limited efficacy, and trust in their clinical data is rightly low. The European Union did not order enough vaccines in time, but sued a large manufacturer for delivery delays. Now it is setting up yet another bureaucratic institution. At least the pharmaceutical or life science industry paved the way out, but is not enthusiastically praised for it. It would be too easy and superficial to blame mistakes of governments and leaders on stupidity. Idiocy exists, but we have to go deeper to understand how illusions and blind spots in today's common perception and science, inertia, arrogance, conflicts of interest, competition of individuals, and states and institutions for public recognition have contributed to a multitude of flawed assessments and direct mistakes. Intro -- The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global High-Tech Challenge at the Interface of Science, Politics, and Illusions -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2 We are no longer hunters and gatherers. Societies, states, values, and healthcare today -- References -- Chapter 3 Development of drugs and vaccines -- References -- Chapter 4 COVID-19-The disease -- 1 Introduction -- 2 DNA and RNA -- 3 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and COVID-19 disease -- 4 Modern society and public health -- 5 Traditional avenues of prevention -- 6 Vaccines -- 7 Diagnostics -- 8 Treatment -- 9 COVID-19, children, and "children" -- 9.1 The age of vaccination for "children" -- 9.2 Multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) -- 10 COVID-19 variants -- 11 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5 Russian and Chinese vaccines -- 1 Russian vaccines -- 2 Chinese vaccines -- 3 Assessment -- References -- Chapter 6 The European Union (EU) response to the COVID-19 pandemic -- 1 The original course of the pandemic in Europe -- 2 Details of the EU response -- 3 Future EU plans -- 4 A preliminary assessment of the EU response to the COVID-19 pandemic -- References -- Chapter 7 COVID-19 vaccines global access (COVAX) and more -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Key international organizations -- 3 COVID-19 vaccines global access (COVAX) -- 4 The discussion about booster shots -- 5 Preliminary COVAX assessment -- References -- Chapter 8 International healthcare structures and COVID-19 -- 1 WHO basics and "Public Health Emergencies of International Concern" (PHEICs) -- 2 International Health regulations (IHR) and PHEICs -- 3 The WHO's life of its own -- 4 The WHO and progress in healthcare -- 5 The WHO in the COVID-19 pandemic. 6 The independent panel for pandemic preparedness and response (IPPR) report -- 7 Assessment of the WHO IPPR recommendations -- 8 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 9 Low-tech and high-tech challenges. Accidents and disasters. Technical and scientific progress and its perception ... -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Groupthink -- 3 US space shuttle disasters -- 4 Boeing 737 MAX crashes -- 5 Nuclear plant meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, after a tsunami -- 6 Lead poisoning -- 7 Love Canal/Blackcreek village -- 8 Mercury poisoning -- 9 Bhopal -- 10 Tobacco smoking -- 11 BSE and Jacob-Creutzfeld-disease -- 12 Intermediate summary -- 13 Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10 Basic research, applied research, and the real world -- References -- Chapter 11 Conflicts of interest and the self-picture of medicine and scientists -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Science is part of society -- 3 The special edition on 150 years "Nature" in 2019 -- 4 The "Nature" coverage of the European Union (EU) science budget deliberations in 2019 -- 5 The term "medical-industrial complex" and its ramifications -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 12 Vaccination hesitancy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Discussion -- 3 Additional dimensions -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 13 Social inequality, developing countries, and COVID-19 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Social framework and the responsibility for one's fate and health -- 3 Social inequality: The sociology approach -- 4 Ideologies and politics that promise(d) to abolish poverty -- 5 Developing countries and the COVID-10 pandemic -- 6 The misconception of a weakening of intellectual property as a way out of the pandemic -- 7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14 Politics, illusions, websites, and the real world -- 1 Humanity and communication. 2 Fairy tales, oral tradition, the worlds of radio and television, and the internet -- 3 Politics, websites, and the real world -- 4 The COVID-19 pandemic and the internet -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 15 Global warming, Armageddon warnings, and the COVID-19 pandemic -- 1 Climate change and global warming: The basics -- 2 The predicted effect of climate change on humans -- 3 Global warming and the COVID-19 pandemic -- 4 The mixing of geoscience, social, and medical challenges -- 5 Scientific warnings in the past -- 6 The privileges of youth -- 7 COVID-19 is a high-tech challenge -- References -- Chapter 16 China and Russia are giants on feet of clay -- References -- Chapter 17 Conclusions and outlook -- 1 Conclusions -- References -- Index. Klaus Rose. Includes index. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 COVID-19 (Disease) Political aspects COVID-19 (Disease) Social aspects Politics, Practical COVID-19 Politics Pandemic Preparedness Pandémie de COVID-19, 2020-2023 COVID-19 Aspect politique COVID-19 Aspect social Politique politics COVID-19 (Disease) Political aspects COVID-19 (Disease) Social aspects COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-) fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vB9ppxymcDb8984mKfy Since 2020 fast RA644.C67 614.5/92414 (OCoLC)1283819950 9780323993876 0323993877 9780323991490 0323991491 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780323991490 YDX 220306 20260327171634.9 in00005769481 eng