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On the origin of the deadliest pandemic in 100 years : an investigation / Elaine Dewar.

Dewar, Elaine, (author.).

Summary:

"When the first TV newscast described a SARS-like flu affecting a distant Chinese metropolis, investigative journalist Elaine Dewar started asking questions: Was SARS-CoV-2 something that came from nature, as leading scientists insisted, or did it come from a lab, and what role might controversial experiments have played in its development? Why was Wuhan the pandemic's ground zero--and why, on the other side of the Atlantic, had two researchers been marched out of a lab in Winnipeg by the RCMP? Why were governments so slow to respond to the emerging pandemic, and why, now, is the government of China refusing to cooperate with the World Health Organization? And who, or what, is DRASTIC? Locked down in Toronto with the world at a standstill, Dewar pored over newspapers and magazines, preprints and peer-reviewed journals, email chains and blacked-out responses to access to information requests; she conducted Zoom interviews and called telephone numbers until someone answered as she hunted down the truth of the virus's origin. In this compulsive whodunnit, she reads the science, follows the money, connects the geopolitical interests to the spin--and shows how leading science journals got it wrong, leaving it to interested citizens and junior scientists to pull out the truth."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781771964258 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: 470 pages ; 20 cm.
  • Publisher: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2021]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: COVID-19 (Disease) > China.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- > China.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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