Poh Lian Lim – författare

In 2003, a US-trained Malaysian infectious disease doctor moved from Seattle to Singapore with her husband and young family. She started work 3 weeks before the first SARS patient was admitted to the hospital which became Ground Zero for SARS in Singapore. This is a firsthand account of her experiences as a frontline doctor in a terrifying outbreak as a completely new virus swept through Singapore.This book tells the story of the healthcare workers and patients caught up in the SARS outbreak in Singapore, and distills medical and public insights from hard-won experience fighting a completely unknown virus, and successfully shutting down the first pandemic of the 21st century despite having no effective vaccines or antiviral medications.

In 2003, a US-trained Malaysian infectious disease doctor moved from Seattle to Singapore with her husband and young family. She started work 3 weeks before the first SARS patient was admitted to the hospital which became Ground Zero for SARS in Singapore. This is a firsthand account of her experiences as a frontline doctor in a terrifying outbreak as a completely new virus swept through Singapore.This book tells the story of the healthcare workers and patients caught up in the SARS outbreak in Singapore, and distills medical and public insights from hard-won experience fighting a completely unknown virus, and successfully shutting down the first pandemic of the 21st century despite having no effective vaccines or antiviral medications.

In the opening days of 2020, the world learnt of a terrifying outbreak unfolding in China. In Singapore, as in other Asian countries scarred by the 2003 outbreak of SARS, a collective shiver went down the spines of health authorities. The great pandemic of the 21st century turned out to be, not a 1918-like influenza event, but a novel coronavirus, SARS CoV 2.This book is a warm and honest discussion of facts, uncertainties, and experiences by an infectious disease expert working on the frontlines of the COVID pandemic in Singapore. It distills medical, public health and personal insights that may be helpful to anyone trying to understand COVID-19, and how individuals, communities and countries can try to navigate the evolving impact of this pandemic that we are all grappling with.