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Most of the book is really solid (but again, dense) science journalism, but Quammen's chapter on viruses ("Going Viral," Chapter 6) contains a really fascinating, well-argued analysis of an idea: the relationship between transmission and virulence, the two qualities that mark a virus' success. The book is so concrete; it might've benefited from more inclusions of the same ideas in theoretical terms like this.
— Jul 14, 2020 02:18AM
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Pippin
is on page 310 of 587
Anyway, I'm learning a lot, but it comes across in so little space that most of it is likely going over my head.
— Jul 14, 2020 02:20AM
Pippin
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Particularly rich and information dense, yet not without the rare but appreciated touch of humor. There is a human component––particularly in the ten-page section on an ebola researcher and her time in a government quarantine facility called The Slammer––but it's still pretty taxing reading. The forbidding fact has finally dawned upon me: I have started a tome.
— Jul 09, 2020 11:23PM
