Three years into the pandemic, science writer David Quammen looks back at the scramble to identify, understand and stop the spread of Covid-19. In his new book, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus, he writes about the dozens of researchers that figured out how SARS-CoV-2 spread so rapidly across the globe and so effectively evaded the human immune system. He also investigates the origins of the virus, debunking the theory that it escaped from a lab, and instead shows it most likely originated in animals.

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