num_pages: 248
description: The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldnt have. Since this centurys turn epidemiologists have warned of new infectious diseases. Indeed H1N1 H7N9 SARS MERS Ebola Makona Zika and a variety of lesser viruses have emerged almost annually. But what of the epidemiologists themselves? Some bravely descended into the caves where bat species hosted coronaviruses including the strains that evolved into the COVID-19 virus. Yet despite their own warnings many of the researchers appear unable to understand the true nature of the diseaseas if they are dead to what theyve seen.Dead Epidemiologists is an eclectic collection of commentaries articles and interviews revealing the hidden-in-plain-sight truth behind the pandemic: Global capital drove the deforestation and development that exposed us to new pathogens. Rob Wallace and his colleaguesecologists geographers activists and yes epidemiologistsunpack the material and conceptual origins of COVID-19. From deepest Yunnan to the boardrooms of New York City this book offers a compelling diagnosis of the roots of COVID-19 and a stark prognosis of whatwithout further interventionmay come.
language: English
title: Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19
publisher: Monthly Review Press