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(0)John Allen
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Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Already contacts between virus-carrying animals and humans are increasing due to loss of habitat, population growth, climate change, and other factors. Global travel means that an outbreak can race around the world within weeks. A sudden outbreak like COVID-19 can overwhelm the richest nations and leave their health systems struggling to catch up. And poorer countries can face health crises that quickly spiral out of control. The variety of possible...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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,...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Cancel culture refers to the act of punishing individuals, usually by way of social media, for words or actions deemed unacceptable. Whatever its impact, cancel culture owes its rise to social media. Often it involves a kind of boycott"--
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Social media platforms have become highly sophisticated in helping users make connections online. These connections can be positive experiences or can be negative and detrimental. Users need to be informed of the good and the bad of social media use"--
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines or software, as opposed to the intelligence of humans. AI might someday become valued assistants in hospitals, medical clinics, law offices, science labs, military bases, and anywhere else where rapid data analysis is key. While AI is still a developing technology, there are concerns as well as excitement surrounding it"--