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Disclaimer upfront: Pandemic is not an easy read. It’s engagingly written, deeply researched, well-argued, and prescient. It’s funny in a mordant way. It presents intriguing theories and hypotheses, buttressed by science, statistics, and anecdotes. But the subject is ultimately, frightening and depressing.
Sonia Shah examines pandemics as a recurrent phenomenon, and methodically dissects the nature of the beast, the reasons they occur and recur, and the root causes of our inability to deal with them. She outlines the repetitive nature of human folly in dealing with disease. The first edition of Pandemic was published in 2016, and it predicted the advent
