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Via Worldometer: Coronavirus Update (Live): 1,000,829 Cases and 51,356 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Outbreak.
Update: Go to Worldometer and you'll find this graph in an interactive form:
It ends at April 1, but run your cursor down the blue line and you'll find that on March 26 the world case total since the outbreak began in December was 531,865. One week later, that total has doubled. So has the number of deaths, from 24,073 on March 26 to 52,085 on Thursday afternoon.
David Quammen: Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
David Quammen: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Jerry Thompson: Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America
A 9.0 quake will be the biggest public health disaster North America has ever faced.
John M. Barry: The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Karl Taro Greenfeld: The China Syndrome
How SARS broke out and was hunted down.
Marilyn Chase: The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
Ralph R. Frerichs: Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
The best book I know on the subject.
Seth Mnookin: The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy
Sonia Shah: The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
Sonia Shah: Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Highly recommended.
