The Big One
How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics
- Michael T. Osterholm PhD. and Mark Olshaker 2025 . 614.4 OST Beaverton Lib.
- This is a medical fiction story about a future "SARS-3" blended with real factoids
- author uses "Covid" rather than COVID-19, an acronym for Coronavirus Disease 2019"
p003 Prologue
p019 ch1 Virus versus Humans
p021 Franz Fanon
p041 ch2 The Air We Breathe
p077 ch3 Mandates
p115 ch4 Medical Countermeasures
- p153 BinaxNOW detected 99 out of 117 samples that tested positive with PCR (Polymerase chain reaction) lab tests
- author horrified that this shoddy test was approved
- my question is, compared to what other 2020 home test for COVID?
p155 "I currently serve as a consultant to a company called GRIP Molecular that is working on this very type of testing"
- website: "Nucleic acid amplification process that significantly increases the diagnostic accuracy of existing, low-cost, rapid diagnostic tests"
Enough said. This book may be an investment-raising gimmick for a Minnesota startup diagnostics company that pays the author. I'll change my mind if I see good data.
p157 ch5 Effective Communication
p205 ch6 Surveillance
p239 ch7 Politics and Policy
p277 ch8 Where Do We Go From Here?