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03-06-2020 | Commentary

The Root Causes of COVID-19 Screech for Compassion

Auteur: Bassam Khoury

Gepubliceerd in: Mindfulness | Uitgave 8/2020

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Aristotle proposed that unwise people react to things whereas wise people inquire about their root causes and aim to derive global principles. The pandemic of the 2019 novel coronavirus (causing the disease COVID-19) has expanded from Wuhan throughout China and has spread to more than 200 countries, with millions of people becoming infected and hundreds of thousands losing their lives to the disease (World Health Organization 2020). How did this happen, and what are the root causes? …

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Titel: The Root Causes of COVID-19 Screech for Compassion
Auteur: Bassam Khoury
Publicatiedatum: 03-06-2020
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Mindfulness / Uitgave 8/2020
Print ISSN: 1868-8527
Elektronisch ISSN: 1868-8535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-020-01412-8

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