The COVID-19 Pandemic

A Global High-Tech Challenge at the Interface of Science, Politics, and Illusions

Klaus Rose
Elsevier
248 pages
ISBN: 9780323991490
March 2022

This book discusses COVID-19 as the first pandemic in the Internet era and our current reality of continuous reports, news, and updates. On this front, there has been no global political leadership, and each country has made big errors. This book takes us 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.