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Title Breathless : the scientific race to defeat a deadly virus / Daniel Quammen.
Author Quammen, David, 1948- author.
Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
©2022
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Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description viii, 406 pages ; 24 cm
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Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Citizens need not panic -- The warnings -- Message in a bottle -- Market dynamics -- Variables and constants -- Four kinds of magic -- The leopards of Mumbai -- Nobody knows everything.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-394) and index.
Local Note LEASE 2022-10
Subject COVID-19 (Disease)
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
COVID-19 vaccines.
Coronavirus infections.
Virus diseases.
Communicable diseases.
Epidemics.
Genre Informational works.
ISBN 9781982164362 (hardcover) : $29.99
1982164360 (hardcover)
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