Description

In this gripping account of the COVID-19 pandemic, the worldwide scientific community races to understand SARS-CoV-2, investigate its origins, and develop vaccines against a rapidly spreading threat. Drawing on extensive reporting and scientific expertise, the book follows the researchers, laboratories, and institutions whose work reshaped our understanding of viruses and public health. Along the way, it explores the complexities of zoonotic disease, virology, scientific collaboration, and the urgent debates surrounding the pandemic’s beginnings. Insightful and deeply informed, it offers a compelling portrait of science under extraordinary pressure.

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audiobook

Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing

Published Oct 4, 2022

1 pages

ISBN: 9781797145761

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First Published

2022

Language

eng

Content Warnings

Content and trigger warnings for Breathless by David Quammen.

Disease/Pandemic
Death/Grief