Jonathan Dworkin

eBook, ePUB

Plague Doctors (eBook, ePUB)

How Hawaii Battled the Pandemic

Beschreibung

A clinical infectious diseases specialist based on the Island of Hawai'i, Dr. Jonathan Dworkin has served as an advisor to the mayors of Honolulu and Hawai'i counties during the COVID-19 crisis and has written widely about the state's faltering pandemic response. In Plague Doctors, his front-row seat and hands-on involvement provides invaluable insight into how the state handled-or mishandled-the first eighteen months of the pandemic. In an Afterword, Dworkin analyzes the current-day situation as of fall 2021 and the impacts of the delta variant.

Technische Details

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• Größe: 3.15MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Jonathan Dworkin is a clinical infectious diseases doctor based in Waimea, Hawai'i. A graduate of the humanities and medicine program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, Dworkin worked as the antimicrobial stewardship director, and as part of the infection control team, for the Queen's Healthcare System from 2015 to 2019. In 2018 he was named by Queen's as the Ke Kauka Po'okela Outstanding Physician of the Year. During the pandemic, his writing was widely linked on social media, and in August 2020, the Honolulu Star-Advertiserpublished his piece on the state's faltering pandemic response.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Watermark Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781948011679
• Artikelnr.: 62949298