Sin aliento

David Quammen, one of the best scientific writers in the world, immerses us in the frantic race to decipher the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, find its origin and make possible the development of vaccines to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. After interviewing almost a hundred scientists, including the most important virologists on the international scene, Quammen denounced how for decades experts warned that this pandemic would arrive, but their advice was ignored for economic or political reasons. In addition, it is also responsible for deciphering the keys to understand some theories about the origin of the virus and discarding other more scandalous but less reliable assumptions. This book takes us to the front line of the battle against COVID-19 through the eyes of those scientists who led this fight, and it does so with the comprehensible and revealing prose of an incomparable master like Quammen.