Read an exclusive extract from Richard Horton’s The COVID-19 Catastrophe

This post is an exclusive extract from Chapter Three of Richard Horton’s, Editor-in-Chief of leading medical journal The Lancet, recent book The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What’s Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again. Polity Press. This is the seventh post in a six-week series: Rapid or Rushed? exploring rapid response publishing in covid times. Read the rest of the series here. As part of the series, there was a virtual roundtable featuring Professor Joshua Gans (Economics in the Age of COVID-19, MIT Press), in conversation with Richard Horton (The COVID-19 Catastrophe, Polity Press and Editor of The Lancet), Victoria Pittman (Bristol University Press) and Qudsiya Ahmed (Cambridge University Press, India)