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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

byDavid 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. Using scientific research, fieldwork, and carefully chosen case studies, Breathless moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing Breathless within medical and science, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. Readers come away with both the essential context and a sharper sense of how the scientific race to defeat a deadly virus continues to shape the present.

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781982164362