ISBN: 9781684426867
Editorial: Turner
Autor: Augustine, St
Año de edición: 2020
Edición: 1
N° Paginas: 288
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Separating FACT from FICTION in the COVID-19 EpidemicPeople are afraid. COVID-19 has upended our lives as it poses new medical dangers, economic suffering and grave uncertainty about the world around us. The collateral damage is enormous, but politics invade perception. There are so many unknowns. Does a treatment work? Is a vaccine coming? How likely are you to catch COVID and how can you best protect yourself and your family? What are the real risks and what is hysteria? Where are our fear leaders? What are their agendas?From Fox News Medical Contributor and the author of False Alarm (Wiley, 2008) comes COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science by Marc Siegel, M.D. This shocking exposé of the facts as the media covers the national pandemic news and spread of the invisible virus reinforces the notion that we must arm ourselves against fear tactics that limit our abilities to safely make decisions and protect our families in a world of uncertainty.Life for citizens of the developed world before the pandemic was safer, easier, and healthier than for any other people in history thanks to modern medicine, science, technology, and intelligence—but COVID-19 has stolen that security and our nation's peace of mind. Now there is a pandemic virus, as well as a crippling epidemic of fear sweeping America. Why? The answer, according to nationally renowned health commentator Dr. Marc Siegel, is that we already lived in an artificially created culture of fear that was just waiting to be unleashed. In COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science, Siegel identifies three major catalysts of the culture of fear: government, the media, and our own psyche. With fascinating, blow-by-blow analyses of the most sensational false alarms of the past few years, compounded now by the worst contagion of our lifetimes, he shows how fear mongers manipulate our most primitive instincts—often without our even realizing it. COVID shows us how to look behind the hype and hysteria, inoculate ourselves against these crippling fear tactics, and develop the emotional and intellectual skills needed to take back our lives, even as we battle the pandemic itself. Críticas “Marc Siegel is the first person we go to when we’ve got questions about medicine and science . . . This is the first book I’d read about COVID.” —Tucker Carlson, national broadcaster and bestselling author “Dr. Marc Siegel is the nation’s doctor when it comes to expertly addressing the pandemic.” —Mark Levin, national broadcaster and bestselling author Praise for Dr. Marc Siegel “Dr. Siegel, always good to talk with you—especially at a difficult time when we need to get the facts out to the American people. We talk about a pandemic of virus, but you and I also always talk about the fact that there is a pandemic of misinformation out there . . . thank you for the work that you’ve done to help people better understand a disease that quite frankly changes and humbles us each and every day.” —Jerome Adams, M.D., M.P. H., Surgeon General of the United States “I just want to thank you Dr. Siegel. You’ve played a really important role in helping to educate the American public with really balanced, scientific, factual information and that’s very important.” —Alex Azar, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services “Thank you for all you do. It is such an important role you play in getting the information out and getting it out accurately and motivating both our own professional physicians but the public at large to embrace these important public health measures—particularly vaccination.” —Robert Redfield, M.D., Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "Siegel cuts through the hype about the 'deadly' this and the 'lethal' that, and applies reason in seeking the answers." —John M. Barry, author of The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History "Marc Siegel is an articulate voice of r
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