Download or read book COVID-19: Anatomy of a Pandemic written by David Parsons and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic is a Shakespearean mini-series in five episodes. The spring surge of 2020 took the Northeast by storm. The summer surge caught the South sleeping. The fall surge, culminating at Christmas, was ushered in by the chilly winds of the upper Midwest with the rest of the country following. A COVID-19 variant came from The UK to do battle with our efforts at vaccination. And the Summer of 2021 brought the Delta variant with new powers of transmission. In this book, David Parsons explains the forces that shaped each of these hugely different episodes. Weather, politics, population density, and lack of preparation all played their roles. But in the end, human behavior determined the course of events for both good and bad. Over the last ten years, Mr. Parsons has written six books where he shared his understanding of complex systems. The first two laid out his vision of the art of problem solving. He then compared the current architecture program at the Harvard Graduate School of design to his experience at the school in the 1960's. With sixty years of experience in computer programming, he published a short guide to artificial intelligence. With two of his granddaughters, he documented an investigation into how gravity manages to act as it does. And now, after publishing a weekly report on the COVID-19 pandemic for over a year, he takes us through a compelling exploration of why the pandemic trajectory followed its torturous course.