Content area
Full text
NONFICTION Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to COVID-19 By Heather E. Quinlan, Visible Ink, 2020, 398 pp., ISBN 978-1-57859704-8, $22.95 (paper).
Heather Quinlan is a successful, eclectic writer, editor, and filmmaker with all manner of multimedia experience: PBS, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New Yorker, CBS This Morning and NPRs All Things Considered, which she ably brings to the global event of our times: SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19.
In chapter 1, The Beginning of the End, Quinlan writes, This book will cover plagues, pandemics, and ... viruses, bacterial, buboes, vaccines, and diseases that felled entire civilizations. .within are also stories...