The COVID-19 Pandemic
A Global High-Tech Challenge at the Interface of Science, Politics, and Illusions
- 1st Edition - March 1, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Klaus Rose
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 1 4 9 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 3 8 7 - 6
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 curre… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe 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. Healthcare professionals and anyone interested in an in-depth understanding of humankind’s response to the COVID-19 challenge will not get around the key conclusions of this book.
- Outlines key elements of modern civilization, public health, and drug and vaccine development on the background of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Discusses the historical roots of separate drug approval of vaccines and drugs in administratively classified "children" (of whom many are bodily mature long before their 16th or 18th birthday), and why the belated approval of vaccines against COVID-19 in minors is not based on science, but on blurs and conflicts of interest
- Outlines key elements we need to address to become better prepared for future global health challenges. In the first place, we do not need new institutions, but to overcome intellectual barriers and blind spots
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Members of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), ethics committees (ECs), journalists, lawyers, patient advocacy groups, and politicians
1. Introduction
2. We are no longer hunters and gatherers. States, values, and healthcare today
3. COVID-19
4. Low tech, high-tech, accidents and disasters
5. Healthcare structures and professions, drug development, regulatory authorities
6. Basic and Applied Science, Research and Development (R&D), Business, and More
7. Conflicts of interest in healthcare and the self-picture of physicians and healthcare professionals
8. The worlds of television, soap operas, and the real world
9. Abuse of science, vaccination scepticism, and pseudo-science
10. Warnings about Armageddon, global warming, and more
11. Social inequality, developing countries and COVID-19
12. Russia And China are giants on feet of clay
13. Outlook
2. We are no longer hunters and gatherers. States, values, and healthcare today
3. COVID-19
4. Low tech, high-tech, accidents and disasters
5. Healthcare structures and professions, drug development, regulatory authorities
6. Basic and Applied Science, Research and Development (R&D), Business, and More
7. Conflicts of interest in healthcare and the self-picture of physicians and healthcare professionals
8. The worlds of television, soap operas, and the real world
9. Abuse of science, vaccination scepticism, and pseudo-science
10. Warnings about Armageddon, global warming, and more
11. Social inequality, developing countries and COVID-19
12. Russia And China are giants on feet of clay
13. Outlook
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 1, 2022
- No. of pages (Paperback): 248
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323991490
- eBook ISBN: 9780323993876
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Klaus Rose
Dr. Klaus Rose is a medical doctor by training and profession. In the 1990s, after clinical training, he joined the pharmaceutical industry. In 1999 at Novartis in Switzerland, he came across clinical studies in children and was intrigued. His eldest daughter suffered from Sturge–Weber syndrome, which is serious and very rare. Dr. Rose became passionate about “pediatric drug development” and what the European Medicines Agency (EMA) called “Better Medicines for Children.” He became global head pediatrics at Novartis from 2001–2005 and moved to the same position 2005–2009 at Genentech/Roche. After one more year at a regulatory company, he became an independent consultant in 2011. He advises companies on EMA “pediatric investigation plans” (PIPs), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pediatric requests or demands. He detected fundamental flaws in “Pediatric Drug Development“ and publishes about this (and more) in peer-reviewed journals and medical textbooks.
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Klausrose Consulting, Pediatric Drug Development and More; Riehen (Basel), SwitzerlandRead The COVID-19 Pandemic on ScienceDirect