NEW: COVID-19 What you need to know about the coronavirus and the race for the vaccine, by Dr. Michael Mosley.

Date published: 27th May 2020

This one seems to be the most popular COVID-19 coronavirus book currently. From the publisher:

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND EDITION

This book charts the trajectory of the COVID-19 virus, from its emergence in China at the end of 2019 to its rapid worldwide spread.

Based on the latest scientific discoveries, Dr. Mosley gives you a detailed understanding of the secrets of this coronavirus, how it spreads, how it infects your body and how your immune system tries to fight back. Armed with the facts you’ll be in a much better position to protect yourself and your family when the world begins to reopen.

Dr. Mosley also follows the work of leading doctors and virus researchers as they battle to find treatments and a safe and effective vaccine (ultimately, the only way to defeat the virus).

Eating well, sleeping soundly, exercising and managing your stress are all critical for keeping your brain, body and immune system in the best possible shape over the coming months. These are areas where Dr. Mosley is well known for his science-based and practical approach.

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NEW: The Coronavirus Prevention Handbook: 101 Science-Based Tips That Could Save Your Life, by Wang Zhou, M.D.

Date published: 10th March 2020

The must-have guide for anticipating, preparing, and protecting yourself from a potential coronavirus outbreak with 101 science-based tips.

The Coronavirus Prevention Handbook is a comprehensive guide, written by Wang Zhou and a panel of experts at the center of the coronavirus pneumonic epidemic (COVID-19). With graphic illustrations and plain language, this book is an introduction to COVID-19 that anyone can understand and use to safeguard themselves against the pandemic.

As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, preventative measures such as controlling the source of infection, early detection of patients, and cutting off transmission become more imperative. With 101 tips for individuals to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the information in this handbook could be lifesaving. The prevention tips included in the handbook feature:

• Precautions for individuals and public places
• Strategies for detection and treatment of the disease
• An overview of the coronavirus and how it's spread
• Basics about contagious diseases

With the number of reported cases of COVID-19 growing daily, the information in this book could save your life!

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NEW: Understanding Coronavirus, by Raul Rabadan.

Date published: 16th June 2020

Since the identification of the first cases of the coronavirus in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, there has been a significant amount of confusion regarding the origin and spread of the so-called ‘coronavirus’, officially named SARS-CoV-2, and the cause of the disease COVID-19.

Conflicting messages from the media and officials across different countries and organizations, the abundance of disparate sources of information, unfounded conspiracy theories on the origins of the newly emerging virus and the inconsistent public health measures across different countries, have all served to increase the level of anxiety in the population.

Where did the virus come from? How is it transmitted? How does it cause disease? Is it like flu? What is a pandemic? What can we do to stop its spread? Written by a leading expert, this concise and accessible introduction provides answers to the most common questions surrounding coronavirus for a general audience.

Special Features:

• Provides a thoughtful and balanced introduction to the coronavirus SARS-CoV2 and the disease COVID-19
• Discusses the first cases, the clinical characteristics and the inconsistent public health measures adopted across different countries and regions and their impact
• Includes coverage of testing, the immune response to the virus and the latest advances in the therapy development
• Provides a comparison of the 2019 coronavirus pandemic with the 2003 SARS outbreak, as well as flu pandemics, including the 2018 Spanish flu and 2009 H1N1
• Discusses what data is available, what it means and what can be learnt from it.

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NEW: The Wuhan Coronavirus Safety Handbook: Survival Manual to the 2019-nCoV & COVID Pandemic Outbreak, Lockdowns & Quarantines, by Dr Daniel C Paul.

Date published: 3rd March 2020

Panic over the 2019-nCoV virus that originated in Wuhan, a city in the Chinese province of Hubei with 11 million inhabitants.

With the virus spreading to more than 70 countries, people around the world are getting ready to prepare for this pandemic that has already left over 3,000 death. The WHO declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, and items such as facemasks and hand sanitizers are selling out like hotcakes.

In this safety handbook, Dr. Daniel C. Paul M.D., an expert in pandemic prevention, explains what the virus is, how to protect yourself and your family from it, the progress on finding a cure and how to prepare for potential lockdowns, quarantines, and (food) shortages.

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NEW: Fight Back: Beat the Coronavirus, by Crandall W. Chauncey and Charlotte Libov.

Date published: 7th July 2020

FIGHT BACK: Beat the Coronavirus separates fact from hype and offers practical, proven strategies and hope for conquering the COVID-19 pandemic.

World renowned physician and author Dr. Chauncey Crandall outlines the latest health information on how to protect yourself, family, friends and community from Coronavirus, how to stop the spread of infection, and what to do if you are infected. Dr Crandall is known as "The Praying Doctor" because, along with medicine, he dispenses prayer and his faith in God; he has been heralded for his values and message of hope to all his patients.

Co-authored by Charlotte Libov, an award-winning health book author, pioneer in the field of patient advocacy and health reporter with expertise in pandemic outbreaks, FIGHT BACK: Beat the Coronavirus also provides information on potential treatments, vaccines, and cures.

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NEW: Beat the Coronavirus: Strategies for Staying Safe and Coping With the New Normal During the COVID-19 Pandemic, by Joseph D. Lasica (Author), Karen Jubanyik (MD) (Author).

Date published: 13th May 2020

From the publisher: Ready for straight talk about the coronavirus from experts you can trust. Beat the coronavirus offers dozens of actions you can take right now to keep you and your family safe. We've assembled a team of top medical and health experts from Yale University School of Medicine and leading medical centers. We start by answering your urgent questions about coronavirus and the pandemic:

• What's the best way to protect myself from coronavirus?
• How do I protect my grandparents or elderly parents from catching it?
• What are the signs that I might have the virus?
• How can I reduce my stress levels from all this?
• What kind of face mask should I wear in public?
• When should I worry about sending my children back to school?
• How should I prepare before returning to my job?
• How do I get through these shutdowns without going crazy?
• What are the best cleaning techniques to protect my home?
• How should I adjust my shopping habits?
• What will the New Normal look like?

Beat the Coronavirus offers practical advice from the experts on how to stay safe but also how to adapt to these major changes in our lives. This is a book for regular people with busy lives. Its a handbook, health guide, and pandemic roadmap written in plain English. Our medical experts will help steer you through this crisis and arm you with the facts so you take the proper precautions and plan for the bumpy road ahead. Stop clicking around the Internet and listen to the experts. We can beat this virus and get back to our lives. Were all in this together!

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NEW: The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop, by Adam Kucharski.

Date published: 31st March 2020 and 7th July 2020

'It is hard to imagine a more timely book...much of the modern world will make more sense having read it.' - The Times

'Brilliant and authoritative' - Alex Bellos, author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland

A deadly virus suddenly explodes into the population. A political movement gathers pace, and then quickly vanishes. An idea takes off like wildfire, changing our world forever. We live in a world that's more interconnected than ever before. Our lives are shaped by outbreaks - of disease, of misinformation, even of violence - that appear, spread and fade away with bewildering speed. To understand them, we need to learn the hidden laws that govern them. From 'superspreaders' who might spark a pandemic or bring down a financial system to the social dynamics that make loneliness catch on, The Rules of Contagion offers compelling insights into human behaviour and explains how we can get better at predicting what happens next.

Along the way, Adam Kucharski explores how innovations spread through friendship networks, what links computer viruses with folk stories - and why the most useful predictions aren't necessarily the ones that come true.

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NEW: Outbreaks and Epidemics: Battling Infection from Measles to Coronavirus, by Meera Senthilingam.

Date published: 2nd June 2020

A journey through the history and science of epidemics and pandemics - from AIDS to Zika.

For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out communities, or even entire populations. Yet for all our advanced scientific knowledge, only one human disease - smallpox - has ever been eradicated globally.

In recent years, outbreaks of Ebola and Zika have provided vivid examples of how difficult it is to contain an infection once it strikes, and the panic that a rapidly spreading epidemic can ignite.

But while we chase the diseases we are already aware of, new ones are constantly emerging, initiating a new race to identify them. At the same time, antimicrobial resistance is harnessing infections that we once knew how to control, enabling them to thrive once more.

Meera Senthilingam presents a timely look at humanity's ongoing battle against infection, examining the successes and failures of the past, along with how we are confronting the challenges of today, and our chances of eradicating disease in the future.

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NEW: On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus, by David Waltner-Towes.

Date published: 29th June 2020

Written by a leading epidemiologist, this engrossing book answers our questions about animal diseases that jump to humans - called zoonoses - including why they have become more common in recent history, and what we can do about them.

Almost all pandemics and epidemics - including SARS, Ebola and now COVID-19 - have been caused by diseases that come to us from animals. In On Pandemics, David Waltner-Toews gathers the latest research to profile dozens of illnesses.

Why do zoonotic diseases jump from animals to humans - and why do some hang around for good? How have governments responded to pandemics and epidemics throughout history, for better or worse? How have climate change, industrialised farming, cultural practices, biodiversity loss and globalisation made these diseases not only possible, but the inevitable outcomes of our modern lifestyles?

Coronaviruses have made bats their home for centuries. Until SARS came along, we didn't know they were there, nor do we know how many other death-dealing viruses might be living undetected in wildlife. On Pandemics examines the increasing impact of animal-borne diseases on our world, and encourages us to re-examine our role in pandemics - for the health of the planet as well as our own survival.

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NEW: The Ultimate Survival Medicine Guide: Emergency Preparedness for ANY Disaster, by Joseph and Amy Alton.

Date published: 4 August 2015

The Ultimate Survival Medicine Guide: Emergency Preparedness for any Disaster is the new abridged version of the bestselling book The Survival Medicine Handbook.

This unique medical book is meant to enable the average person to handle injuries and illness in situations in which modern medical facilities and professionals aren’t available due to a disaster.

This book is written by America’s top medical preparedness experts: Joe Alton, MD, and Amy Alton, ARNP. Their mission: to put a medically prepared person in every family for when medical help is not on the way. Using decades of medical experience, they address, in plain language, dozens of medical issues associated with surviving disasters and epidemics. The Altons also discuss the medical supplies needed to become a medical asset to your family and community as well as alternative and natural strategies for when pharmaceuticals aren’t available.

Most medical books will send you to the doctor or hospital when an emergency happens. The Ultimate Survival Medicine Guide assumes what might actually happen—that the average person could be left without medical help in a disaster. With this unique book, you’ll have a head start on keeping your family healthy in times of trouble.

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NEW: The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency in the Era of COVID-19, by Tim Flannery.

Date published: 3 November 2020 Pre-Order

Australians are witnessing an unprecedented government response to crisis-swift decisive action to avert catastrophe. And the advice of scientists has informed every step of the way.

But for decades the advice of scientists on the impending catastrophe that climate change will bring has been ignored, dismissed and even ridiculed.

Renowned climate scientist Tim Flannery takes aim at those in government and in the fossil fuel industries for their inaction and lies in response to calls to address the very real and immediate threats posed by climate change. Threats that are now upon us, as the 2019/20 Australian bushfires and floods have shown.

Flannery sees 2020 as a turning point. He explores the measures at our disposal to reduce CO2 emissions. He looks at the ways carbon can be drawn out of the atmosphere and safely stored to stabilise atmospheric carbon levels. And he demands a new approach that puts tackling climate change in the hands of the scientists who can lead the way.

The Climate Cure is an action plan for survival, a call for government policies that, like its COVID-19 response, rise to the very real climate challenges we face. There is reason for optimism-if we act now.

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NEW: Covid-19 Isn't Fair!, by Jennifer Gilpin Yacio (Author), Farrington Wilson (Illustrator).

Date published: 6th October 2020 Pre-Order

Covid-19 isn't fair! Everyone wants to go out and see their friends, but they CAN'T. Everything is tough right now, so what is a kid to do?

This book honestly explains the emotions kids may be going through and gives easy ways to acknowledge and deal with each. A must for any family that feels that this whole coronavirus is just for the birds!!

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NEW: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Therapeutics, by Shailendra K. Saxena (Editor).

Date published: 2nd July 2020

This is a medical-level book about the COVID-19 coronavirus. It's not cheap, and goes into a lot of detail for those who want a thorough and scientific approach.

From the publishers:

This book provides a comprehensive overview of recent novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection, their biology and associated challenges for their treatment and prevention of novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Discussing various aspects of COVID-19 infection, including global epidemiology, genome organization, immunopathogenesis, transmission cycle, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control strategies, it highlights host-pathogen interactions, host immune response, and pathogen immune invasion strategies toward developing an immune intervention or preventive vaccine for COVID-19.

An understanding of the topics covered in the book is imperative in the context of designing strategies to protect the human race from further losses and harm due to SARS-CoV-2 infection causing COVID-19.

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NEW: Mars Girl: Approaching Extinction Way Worse Than Coronavirus, by Igor Kryan.

Date published: 18th March 2020

Note that this book appears to be quite short. It looks interesting though, I think I'll order it soon. This is what the publisher has to say about it:

This book is unique. The first part of the book is a science fiction novel about a young girl who was forced to escape Earth to Mars due to the extinction event that will hit us way harder than COVID 19 Coronavirus in the nearest future. Red Planet is the only hope for humanity to survive. While the second part of the book describes, from the scientific point of view, why the events depicted in the first part shall come to pass. And it is not a question of IF but WHEN? This book is your only chance to prepare yourself and your family for unavoidability that is unstoppable like a fast approaching runaway freight train to end us all.

Igor Kryan is famous for the myriad of his correct predictions of the future including the most recent three: about Coronavirus in the book Animal Liberation Front (2018), Promise of world wide disruption before 2020 in the book The Second Coming (2018) and the Prophecy of the coming Doomsday in the book Singularity Apocalypse (2019)

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NEW: Making the Last Days Your Best Days: A Biblical Worldview of the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020, by Derrick I. Temple, Sr.

Date published: 21 June 2020

This one looks like it's going to be pretty hardcore in terms of the "doom" side of things, at least on Earth. I think I'll have to get it, just because whatever ends up happening, if you can handle the worst-case scenario (in a worldly sense), then anything else that happens has got to be an improvement on that. From the publishing information:

Making the Last Days Your Best Days is a book that looks at the Coronavirus outbreak from a biblical perspective. Pandemics are often described as pestilences in the Bible and are seen as a sign of the times. This book is a practical exposition of Jesus' teaching in Matthew 24:1-31. It deals with Jesus' call to Believers to stand fast, not fear and look for the coming of Jesus Christ. This work deals with the practical adjustments pastors and local churches have had to make and must make during this outbreak. This book is intended to encourage and exhort pastors and Christians to make the necessary adjustments to continue to be a light in this world in the midst of one of the greatest evangelistic opportunities of our time, i.e., the Coronavirus outbreak.

Making the Last Days Your Best Days also challenges us as pastors to make the adjustments necessary to still be the church although we are temporarily restricted from public gatherings, and rightly so. It is also written as a dedication to pastors and all who have lost loved ones during this pandemic. The world is full of fear during this outbreak as well as many within the local church and religious assemblies. Seeing this outbreak from the larger context of a biblical worldview places less attention on the outbreak and more attention on the God who is in control of this pandemic. Because this pandemic is a sign of the times, the title of this book is exactly what this book is about, i.e., making the last days our best days.

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