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Two grim screenshots, taken just after 11:30 a.m. Pacific time: Coronavirus Update (Live): 1,411,348 Cases and 81,049 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer.
Note the horrendous French case and death numbers. Yesterday France had 5,171 cases and 833 deaths—bad, but not this bad. France24 has a sketchy explanation: they're now including COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes.
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.
