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[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A kid-friendly look at the economic and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as why businesses are closed, why people are losing jobs, and how the environment is being (positively) impacted in the absence of industry. Additional features include informative captions, interesting factual sidebars, suggested activities, a phonetic glossary, resources for further research, information about the author, and an index."--Provided by the...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"In January 2020 the World Health Organization announced a global public health emergency. A massive wave of unemployment swept the nation. Millions of mostly blue collar workers in shuttered industries were laid off. Panicked supermarket shoppers endured long lines and packed aisles to stock up on staples, stripping shelves of toilet paper and water, flour, and spaghetti. Disinfectants and cold and flu medicines were sold out. Life-saving ventilators...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This title uses a then-and-now approach to compare the government response to the 1918 influenza pandemic with the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Powerful photographs and content-packed sidebars will help readers explore how these two crises have impacted the world.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This title uses a then-and-now approach to compare the social changes during the 1918 influenza pandemic with those during the COVID-19 pandemic. Powerful photographs and content-packed sidebars will help readers explore how these two crises have impacted the world.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"By October 2020, more than 33 million people had contracted COVID-19 worldwide. Without a blueprint to follow for curbing a pandemic, the nations of the world were left to come up with their own plans of action. The COVID-19 pandemic has upended life in the United States"--
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Many people stepped up to help others during the COVID-19 pandemic. A pandemic is a disease outbreak that spreads over large geographic areas, such as whole countries, continents, or multiple countries and continents, and affects a large portion of the population. Throughout the crisis, people of diverse ages and backgrounds put the needs of others above their own, often, at great personal sacrifice. They performed acts of service and kindness to...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"In 1918, an influenza pandemic killed tens of millions of people worldwide. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic killed more than 1 million people and upended normal life for months. This topical series compares the events and conditions surrounding the 1918 pandemic to those of the COVID-19 pandemic. Engaging text and powerful photographs explore how the pandemics have informed our culture, medical advancements, and crisis response"--Back cover.
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Pub. Date
[2022].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"In 1918, an influenza pandemic killed tens of millions of people worldwide. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic killed more than 1 million people and upended normal life for months. This topical series compares the events and conditions surrounding the 1918 pandemic to those of the COVID-19 pandemic. Engaging text and powerful photographs explore how the pandemics have informed our culture, medical advancements, and crisis response"--Back cover.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"From its murky origins in China to its rapid development into a full-blown health crisis,COVID-19 has killed hundreds of thousands worldwide and led government leaders to lock down their economies and quarantine their citizens. The virus appears to have originated in Wuhan, China. On February 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) gave the disease its official name. COVID-19 means a COronaVIrus Disease discovered in 2019. One month later,...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March, 2020, when nearly 120,000 cases were reported in over 110 countries. By that time scientists were already working frantically to develop a vaccine to combat the disease. By the summer of 2020, COVID-19 cases had surpassed 20 million, and more than 735,000 people had died. The search for a COVID-19 vaccine was a race against time versus an insidious virus that knew no boundaries and left few people untouched."...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This title uses a then-and-now approach to investigate testing and treatment strategies during both the 1918 influenza pandemic and the COVID-19 pandemic. Powerful photographs and content-packed sidebars will help readers explore how these two crises have impacted the world. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This title uses a then-and-now approach to compare the spread of the influenza virus in the 1918 pandemic with that of SARS-CoV-2 in the COVID-19 pandemic. Powerful photographs and content-packed sidebars will help readers explore how these two crises have impacted the world.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Having originated in East Asia, a new strain of influenza became known among public health officials as the Asian flu. After having spread across East Asia, the virus reached India in June 1957. By the end of that month, the densely populated country was contending with over 1 million cases of the novel influenza virus. Throughout the summer, the pandemic spread across North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Africa, and the Middle East....
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Between 1347 and 1350 a horrifying disease spread by fleas and rats emerged in Asia and raged eastward. Encircling Europe in a deadly noose, the most lethal pandemic in world history killed untold millions of people. Bubonic Plague and the Black Death explores the causes, the spread, the effects on people's lives, as well as efforts to treat the disease and halt its spread." --
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2022.
Description
"Each year hundreds of thousands of people die from HIV/AIDS globally, making it one of the world's most deadly infectious diseases. Beginning in the late 1980s, breakthroughs in research brought treatments that could control HIV and prevent the onset of AIDS. For Americans aged 25 to 44, HIV/AIDS is the sixth most frequent cause of death"--
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"In the United States alone, more than twenty-two million people were infected with Spanish flu and an estimated 675,000 died. Experts believe the virus killed between fifty million and one hundred million people worldwide. The Spanish flu is estimated to have killed about 2.7 percent of the world's population at the time. It laid bare the inadequacies of medical care around the world. It also led to calls for more doctors, nurses, and hospitals,...
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