communicable diseases

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread, the phrase "flatten the curve" became widely known. It refers to the things people can do to space the total number of infections out over a longer period of time. This helps prevent the health-care system from being overloaded. Flattening the Curve examines social distancing and the other measures that people took to slow the spread of the disease.

Explains different types of dangerous viruses and discusses how infections occur, how to prevent an epidemic, how they can be used as weapons, and more.

"Facts about coronaviruses are paired with essential information about social distancing, personal hygiene, and the things we can control in uncertain times, creating a learning experience designed to reduce anxiety"--OCLC.

Explores the foundations of human biology: structure, genetics, and diseases.

Readers learn about pandemics, which develop when a disease spreads across a country, continent, or around the world.

A picture book that describes the impact of COVID-19 on communities and why some essential workers could not quarantine.

"Over the last thirty years we learned nearly every lesson needed to stop this coronavirus outbreak in its tracks--and we heeded almost none of them. The result is a pandemic on ascale never before seen in our lifetimes. [The author] lays out the full story of the previous viruses that should have prepared us, the . . . public health failures that paved the way, the failure to contain the outbreak, and most importantly, what we must do to prevent future pandemics"--OCLC.

Conflict and resentments break out in a small Adirondack town in the fall of 1916 when Miles Fairchild, a wealthy resident living in a "cure cottage" while being treated for tuberculosis, decides to start a discussion group with patients--mostly poor European immigrants--confined in the state-run sanatorium.

Examines the symptoms and treatment of measles, how it is contracted, historic outbreaks of the disease, and ways to prevent epidemic.

An illustrated introduction to COVID-19.