Covid-19: How we can do better

Helmi Yusof

Published Fri, Jan 8, 2021 · 05:50 AM

Ten Lessons For A Post-Pandemic World

By Fareed Zakaria Publisher: WW Norton & Co Hardcover, 320 pages, S$26

IT feels mandatory for any civic-minded adult living in this present time to try and draw lessons from the pandemic - if only to help prevent another one from happening. Fareed Zakaria, the savvy CNN host and Washington Post columnist, read our minds and published this book in late 2020 to address these very concerns.

Zakaria is an Indian-born, Harvard-educated international relations expert. Thus, the book is less a scientific treatise that looks at pandemic prevention than a political science text that presses for a fundamental change in the role of government and s…