TY - CHAP AU - Bogdan Andrei Fezi ED - Vijay Kumar Y1 - 2021-06-15 PY - 2021 T1 - The Role of Architecture and Urbanism in Preventing Pandemics N2 - The current COVID-19 pandemic has infected more than 219 million people and killed more than 4.5 million people worldwide. It has also impacted the socioeconomic status of affected countries and led to the fastest development of vaccines in history. Over seven sections and seventeen chapters, this book comprehensively reviews numerous aspects of COVID-19, including epidemiology, zoonosis, drug development, telehealth, the effects of the virus on healthcare workers, the importance of architecture, and urbanism in preventing future pandemics, and much more. BT - SARS-CoV-2 Origin and COVID-19 Pandemic Across the Globe SP - Ch. 16 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.98294 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.98294 SN - 978-1-83968-756-3 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-18 ER -