Comments on: Book review – COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened, and How to Stop the Next One/2020/07/27/book-review-covid-19-the-pandemic-that-never-should-have-happened-and-how-to-stop-the-next-one/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sat, 08 Feb 2025 20:35:49 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/07/27/book-review-covid-19-the-pandemic-that-never-should-have-happened-and-how-to-stop-the-next-one/comment-page-1/#comment-82439Fri, 17 Mar 2023 22:40:26 +0000/?p=10953#comment-82439[…] mentions influenza as the most likely next pandemic, even though virologists, writers, and the World Health Organisation have prominently worried about […]

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]]>By: Book review – Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/07/27/book-review-covid-19-the-pandemic-that-never-should-have-happened-and-how-to-stop-the-next-one/comment-page-1/#comment-70502Mon, 26 Dec 2022 16:17:51 +0000/?p=10953#comment-70502[…] this focus at the very end of the book and mentions his decision to leave out topics such as the political failures and the hardships faced by medical personnel. Given that he was hunkering down at home […]

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]]>By: Book review – A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/07/27/book-review-covid-19-the-pandemic-that-never-should-have-happened-and-how-to-stop-the-next-one/comment-page-1/#comment-51236Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:12:19 +0000/?p=10953#comment-51236[…] flexible and poorly prepared for a future of increased climate variability. Both Debora MacKenzie (in the context of pandemic preparedness) and George Monbiot (in the context of global food production) have called for more resilient […]

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]]>By: Book review – Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/07/27/book-review-covid-19-the-pandemic-that-never-should-have-happened-and-how-to-stop-the-next-one/comment-page-1/#comment-41247Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:34:55 +0000/?p=10953#comment-41247[…] and how it is virtually powerless to enforce anything (something MacKenzie explained better in COVID-19). Furthermore, the authors do not explore the possibility that we might never find a satisfactory […]

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]]>By: Book review – Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/07/27/book-review-covid-19-the-pandemic-that-never-should-have-happened-and-how-to-stop-the-next-one/comment-page-1/#comment-20266Thu, 17 Jun 2021 17:26:50 +0000/?p=10953#comment-20266[…] far, most of the books I have read on the COVID-19 pandemic have either been of the backwards-looking, how-did-we-get-here type, or have dealt with practical virological, epidemiological, or […]

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]]>By: Book review – A Planet of Viruses (Third Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/07/27/book-review-covid-19-the-pandemic-that-never-should-have-happened-and-how-to-stop-the-next-one/comment-page-1/#comment-18645Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:42:46 +0000/?p=10953#comment-18645[…] on Ebola from the second edition. This introduces coronaviruses more generally, briefly chronicles how the SARS and MERS outbreaks proceeded and how COVID-19 differs, and discusses some of the molecular details, such as how it enters the host cell. This essay felt […]

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]]>By: Book review – Understanding Coronavirus | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/07/27/book-review-covid-19-the-pandemic-that-never-should-have-happened-and-how-to-stop-the-next-one/comment-page-1/#comment-18197Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:50:47 +0000/?p=10953#comment-18197[…] been opened. Already several books are in the making or due any moment, for instance the reportage COVID-19 from journalist Debora MacKenzie or the very critical The COVID-19 Catastrophe by the editor of The […]

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]]>By: Book review – The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What’s Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/07/27/book-review-covid-19-the-pandemic-that-never-should-have-happened-and-how-to-stop-the-next-one/comment-page-1/#comment-13096Thu, 17 Sep 2020 12:52:25 +0000/?p=10953#comment-13096[…] books such as Spillover and COVID-19 have pointed out that virologists have been warning of the threat of pandemics for decades, and […]

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