This is the first comprehensive text to provide not only a detailed explanation of how the SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19) virus is spread within human populations, but also an epidemiological analysis and interpretation of viral pandemic to enable better measures for preventions and control.
Providing an introduction to the physiology of both the human immune systems and the SARS-CoV2 virus, specifically the virus's replicative potential and our own vulnerability, the book offers an in-depth understanding of how the pandemic evolved. It also highlights the aberrant epigenomic mechanistic process in pathogenic microbe's replication and survival, implying gene and environment interaction that affected different populations. Citing a range of environmental conditions, from structural and systemic racism to malnutrition and low-socioeconomic status, the book examines how these factors exacerbated existing health disparities, resulting in a disproportionate burden of morbidity and mortality on certain social groups.
Also providing invaluable guidance on how future iterations of this pandemic may be better prevented and controlled, this will be a defining book for students, researchers and professionals within Public Health and Clinical Medicine to better understand the SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19) virus, and how to protect the most vulnerable social groups.
About the Author: Laurens (Larry) Holmes, Jr. is an immunologist and infectious disease specialist, and obtained his doctoral degree in cancer epidemiology and biostatistics from the University of Texas, Health Sciences Center at Houston. He is a Principal Translational Research Scientist, a former Founding Director of the Nemours Paediatric Translational Health Disparities Science research, training and education program, Wilmington, DE (USA), a leading proponent of epigenomic epidemiology in clinical medicine &public health and Affiliate professor of molecular epidemiology & clinical trials at the Biological Sciences Department at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE (USA). Professor Holmes is currently a Director of the Graduate Public Health Program, Public Health & Allied Health Sciences Department, Wesley College-Delaware State University, Dover, DE (USA).
