Coronavirus

COVID-19 is not by far the deadliest pandemic in history, but it is the worst we have ever experienced. It is our black plague. An enemy that we did not see coming and that raises many doubts about its forms of attack and its weak points. But the coronaviruses that are troubling us now are not new: years ago they had two alarming outbreaks when they "jumped" from an animal to a human being. Now, a new mutation (SARS-CoV-2) has spread much faster than its predecessors and appears poised to destabilize our entire lives. The authors offer us an informative tour of that microscopic reality that now threatens us. How a virus works and spreads, the diagnostic tests that exist, the research in vaccines, what foods protect us, the pandemics of the past - or the possible ones of the future - are some of the aspects that await us in this book.