the coming plague part 2 of 2 laurie garrett

I'm quite certain that this is going to go in waves. I've been telling everybody that my event horizon is about 36 months, and that's my best-case scenario. As per Garrett, the vaccine will not be ready anytime in the next year, and it indicates that coronavirus will continue to bother the world in the coming months too. In a recent interaction with Frank Bruni of the New York Times, Garrett revealed that she is a double Cassandra, and made it clear that the uncertainty surrounding the development of a coronavirus vaccine will remain much longer than previously speculated. Uncertainty lingers over coronavirus for 36 months In her 1994 book, 'The Coming Plague', Garrett talks about dreaded pandemics like the coronavirus outbreak which is creating chaos in all nooks of the world now. Now, several people believe that Laurie Garrett, an American science journalist who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, is a Cassandra in real life. This book is a work of investigative reportage like no other and a wake-up call to a world that has become complacent in the face of infectious disease-one that offers a sobering and prescient warning about the dangers of ignoring the coming plague.Cassandra, a mythological character mentioned in Greek mythology is a prophetess who was cursed to utter true prophecies. Relying on extensive interviews with leading experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology, and medicine, as well as field research in sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe, Central America, and the United States, Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague takes readers from the savannas of eastern Bolivia to the rain forests of the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo on a harrowing, fifty year journey through the history of our battles with microbes. Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesĪfter decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious disease was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera that defies chlorine water treatment, and exotic viruses that can kill in a matter of hours. A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one.

The definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize -winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett

The coming plague part 2 of 2 laurie garrett