elstaffe’s Reviews > Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus > Status Update
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is on page 196 of 448
"...best-case scenario, the virus will disappear entirely from that population because it can't find anyone new to infect. That's how smallpox eradication was achieved. The last active smallpox strains in the last few human cases were not killed by antiviral drugs. They died of isolation and loneliness, without leaving offspring." (196)
— Oct 25, 2025 06:06AM
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elstaffe
is on page 422 of 448
"COVID-19 pandemic:
breakthrough cases of, 186
global fatalities of, 168
lack of preparedness for, 3-4, 27, 38, 312
...
political dimension of, 282
rapid global spread of, 76, 91, 114
stock market and, 144-45
Trump's bad advice on, 20, 191, 202-4
uncertainty factor in, 146-47
vaccines for, see vaccines, for COVID-19
wild speculation about origin of, 76-78" (422)
— Dec 06, 2025 05:21AM
breakthrough cases of, 186
global fatalities of, 168
lack of preparedness for, 3-4, 27, 38, 312
...
political dimension of, 282
rapid global spread of, 76, 91, 114
stock market and, 144-45
Trump's bad advice on, 20, 191, 202-4
uncertainty factor in, 146-47
vaccines for, see vaccines, for COVID-19
wild speculation about origin of, 76-78" (422)
elstaffe
is on page 180 of 448
"On April 28, a day when Brazil's total cases exceeded 73,000 and the death toll passed five thousand, Bolsonaro faced a group of reporters at a barricade, and someone mentioned the numbers. 'So what?' he said with a shrug. 'I'm sorry. What do you want me to do?' Brazilians were so badly served by their president they might as well have had Trump." (180)
— Oct 25, 2025 06:05AM
