Breathless : the scientific race to defeat a deadly virus / David Quammen.
By: Quammen, David [author.].
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, ©2022Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.Description: viii, 406 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781982164362.Other title: Scientific race to defeat a deadly virus.Subject(s): COVID-19 (Disease) | COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- | COVID-19 vaccines | Coronavirus infections | Virus diseases | Communicable diseases | Epidemics | COVID-19 | Pandemics | Communicable diseases | Coronavirus infections | COVID-19 (Disease) | COVID-19 Pandemic (2020- ) | COVID-19 vaccines | Epidemics | Virus diseases | COVID-19 (Disease) | Coronavirus infections | Viruses | Communicable diseases | EpidemicsGenre/Form: Informational works. | Informational works. | Informational works. | Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-394) and index.
Citizens need not panic -- The warnings -- Message in a bottle -- Market dynamics -- Variables and constants -- Four kinds of magic -- The leopards of Mumbai -- Nobody knows everything.
"The story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic"--
Scientists have warned for decades that the next big pandemic would be caused by a changeable new virus - very possibly a coronavirus - but such warnings were ignored for political or economic reasons. This book takes readers inside the frantic international effort to understand and control SARS-CoV-2 (aka COVID-19), peering over the shoulders of the scientists who led the chase and found the way to fight the virus. The author shows how new viruses emerge from animals into humans as we disrupt wild ecosystems, and how these viruses adapt to the human hosts - sometimes causing global catastrophe. -- Adapted from jacket.