The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics

Author/Contributor(s):	Osterholm, Michael T
Publisher:	Little, Brown Spark
Date:	09/02/2025
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"The Covid-19 pandemic was the most devastating natural event of the last century, killing more than 7 million people around the globe, straining the fabric of societies internationally, and shaking the foundations of the global economy. And yet, as horrifying as the experience was, Covid-19 was not actually 'the Big One'--the dreaded potential pandemic that haunts the nightmares of epidemiologists and public health officials everywhere, and which will alter life across the world on every meaningful level unless we are ready to deal with it. Indeed, even as we learn to live with Covid-19 and continue to recover from its worst effects, the next pandemic is already lurking around the corner--and it may very well be worse"--