The Impact of Finance on Health
What the chapter is about
This chapter concludes the opening section of the book by reviewing the COVID-19 pandemic, the worst global infectious disease outbreak since the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918-20, over 100 years before. The chapter describes the outbreak and spread of the disease, the measures taken by Governments to control it, the development of vaccines to prevent its transmission, and the after-effects of the pandemic.
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