Five books on the coronavirusEver since the first outbreak of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have been probing its origins. While many believe that the virus jumped from animals to humans, others believe that the coronavirus may have escaped from a lab in China. Dorothy H. Crawford’s pre-COVID book, Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (OUP) explains “how clever these entities really are”. With access to researchers at Pfizer, Moderna, BioNTech, Oxford University, Johnson & Johnson, he conducted interviews and gained their insight. Lessons from the vaccine race will perhaps make the world better prepared when another deadly pathogen finds its way.

Source: The Hindu December 01, 2021 10:38 UTC