Book: Breathless
Author: David Quammen
Pages: 416
This is the 171st read for the year
What Amazon Says:
This is an analysis of SARs-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientist who study its origin, its ever-chagning nature, and its capacity to kill us. David Quammen expertly shows how strange new viruses emerge from animals into humans as we disrupt wild ecosystems and how those viruses adapt to their human hosts, sometimes causing global catastrophe. He explains why this coronavirus will probably be a "forever virus" destined to circulate among humans and bedevil us endlessly, in one variant form or another. As scientists labor to catch it, comprehend it, and control it, with their high-tech tools and methods, the virus finds ways of escape. Based on interviews with nearly one hundre scientists, including leading virologists in China and around the world, Quammen explains that infection disease experts saw this pandemic coming. Also the precise origins of this virus may not be known for years, but some clues are compelling and some suppositions can be dismissed.
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