Books on pandemic published in 2020
The year 2020 has been an eventful one due to many reasons. The limelight of the year has been the coronavirus and how it affected the entire world. The pandemic brought everything to a standstill and led to lockdown all across the globe. People were restricted to their homes with limited supplies, travel restrictions were imposed that limited any kind of movement, and doctors, nurses, police personnel etc. were forced to stay away from their families.
During the pandemic, to clear the clutter around the deadly virus, many non-fiction and fiction books came out. On one hand, these books helped people find solace in reading and on the other, they made people more aware of the virus. Here is a look at books on pandemic published in 2020.
‘The End of October’ by Lawrence Wright
The book talks about an internment camp in Indonesia where forty-seven people are pronounced dead due to a mysterious fever. When Dr Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the WHO to investigate, he finds that the disease will soon have shocking consequences across the globe.
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'COVID-19 : What you need to know about the CORONAVIRUS and the race for the Vaccine' by Dr Michael Mosley
This book charts the trajectory of the coronavirus, from its emergence in China at the end of 2019 to its rapid worldwide spread. The author provides a fascinating and detailed understanding of the secrets of this coronavirus, how it spreads, how it infects your body and how your immune system tries to fight back.
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‘The Pull of the Stars’ by Emma Donoghue
The book is set in Dublin, 1918 and revolves around Nurse Julia Power, who works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers come down with an unfamiliar flu and are quarantined together. The nurses lose patients to this mysterious pandemic, but they also propel new life into a fearful world with their kindness.
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‘The COVID-19 Catastrophe’ by Richard Horton
The book scrutinizes the actions that governments around the world took and failed to take as the coronavirus spread from its origins in Wuhan to becoming the global pandemic that it is today. The author shows that many Western governments and their scientific advisors made assumptions about the virus and its lethality that turned out to be wrong.
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'COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened, and How to Stop the Next One' by Debora MacKenzie
The book explains how COVID-19 went from a potentially manageable outbreak to a global pandemic. The author takes us through the arrival and spread of COVID-19, making clear the steps that governments knew they could have taken to prevent or at least prepare for this.
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'The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19' by Mark Honigsbaum
As per the book’s blurb, “The author chronicles 100 years of history in 10 outbreaks. The fast-paced, critically-acclaimed book combines science history, medical sociology and thrilling front-line reportage to deliver the story of our times.”
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'The Coronavirus: What you Need to Know about the Global Pandemic Paperback' by Dr Swapneil Parikh, Maherra Desai, Dr Rajesh Parikh
When it released, the book was one of the first ones that addressed the history, evolution, facts and myths around the pandemic. It provides credible and comprehensive information from professionals that can help us understand what the Coronavirus is, and how we can prepare and protect ourselves against it.
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