Covid-19: End of the beginning?
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Covid-19 : End of the beginning? / Bergquist, Robert; Stensgaard, Anna Sofie.
I: Geospatial Health, Bind 15, Nr. 1, 897, 2020, s. 1-10.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Covid-19
T2 - End of the beginning?
AU - Bergquist, Robert
AU - Stensgaard, Anna Sofie
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The limited case cluster of atypical pneumonia detected in central China in December 2019, now known as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19), converted into a million confirmed cases worldwide in only 10 weeks. Declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020 (WHO, 2020) and passing the 3 million mark on 27 April, the world is under formidable strain with respect to public health, economy and personal life. Time and again we are alerted about unforeseen, new effects of this disease, which brings to mind the terms “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns” used by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield when referring to the lack of evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq ahead of the second Gulf war, a fitting vocabulary as we again are faced with mass destruction, though this time of a different kind.
AB - The limited case cluster of atypical pneumonia detected in central China in December 2019, now known as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19), converted into a million confirmed cases worldwide in only 10 weeks. Declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020 (WHO, 2020) and passing the 3 million mark on 27 April, the world is under formidable strain with respect to public health, economy and personal life. Time and again we are alerted about unforeseen, new effects of this disease, which brings to mind the terms “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns” used by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield when referring to the lack of evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq ahead of the second Gulf war, a fitting vocabulary as we again are faced with mass destruction, though this time of a different kind.
U2 - 10.4081/gh.2020.897
DO - 10.4081/gh.2020.897
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 32575955
AN - SCOPUS:85086451125
VL - 15
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - Geospatial health
JF - Geospatial health
SN - 1827-1987
IS - 1
M1 - 897
ER -
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