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Breathless : the scientific race to defeat a deadly virus / Daniel Quammen.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982164362 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: viii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | COVID-19 (Disease) COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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- Baker & Taylor
A three-time winner of the National Magazine Award traces the frantic worldwide quest to understand the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and develop the vaccines to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and examines the future of the virus. - Baker & Taylor
"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"-- - Baker & Taylor
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. - Simon and Schuster
National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemicâa âluminous, passionate account of the defining crisis of our time.â (The New York Times).
Breathless is a âgrippingâ (The Atlantic) but âclear-eyed analysisâ (Time) of SARs-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study its origin, its ever-changing 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 âforever virus,â 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 hundred scientists, including leading virologists in China and around the world, Quammen explains that:
-Infectious disease experts saw this pandemic coming
-Some scientists, for more than two decades, warned that âthe next big oneâ would be caused by a changeable new virusâvery possibly a coronavirusâbut such warnings were ignored for political or economic reasons
-The precise origins of this virus may not be known for years, but some clues are compelling, and some suppositions can be dismissed
-And much more
Written by âone of our finest explainers of the natural world for decadesâ (Chicago Tribune), This âcompelling and terrifyingâ (The New York Times) account is an unparalleled look inside the frantic international race to understand and control SARS-CoV-2âand what it might mean for the next potential global health crisis.
