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Loading... Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virusby David Quammen
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) hazel1123 | Mar 19, 2024 |  ================================ There is a summary of the whole book at the end of the text that was largely made by abstracting what you've just finished reading. I found it unnecessary unless you aren't going to read the book. Chapter 37, page 145: In addition, the CDC kept advising that, when local health departments could test they should focus only on people with a travel history, or people with severe symptoms... The author should explain why the CDC made this recommendation. Chapter 69, page 279. a potluck banquet involving roughly forty thousand families [!] (  ) markm2315 | Jan 28, 2024 |  ) muddyboy | Mar 10, 2023 |  ) breic | Nov 10, 2022 | Breathless also makes the case for the continued global priority of doing whatever it takes to eliminate future spillovers of viruses, especially coronaviruses, that may otherwise continue to travel from Earth's ecosystems into our human populations. Keep in mind that a book on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, written in the middle of that pandemic, is bound to leave a few loose ends. That's the purpose of research on these coronaviruses -- to keep expanding the boundaries of what we know. My hunch is that the COVID-19 pandemic will end someday, years from now. Thus, my family and I just bought another box of N95 masks. PS: In November 2022, Breathless was included on the NYTimes list of the 100 best books of 2022. ( ) MaureenRoy | Nov 1, 2022 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML:National Book Award Finalist 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. Breathless is the story 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 "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 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 "the next big one" would be caused by a changeable new virusâ??very possibly a coronavirusâ??but 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. Breathless takes you inside the frantic international effort to understand and control SARS-CoV-2 as if we were peering over the shoulders of the brilliant scientists who led the No library descriptions found. |
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