This newly-released book by Penguin Random House offers a historical perspective of the novel Coronavirus. Dr Mahapatra has been involved in scientific publishing for over two decades, and has earned his PhD in microbiology at the Ohio State University. Analysing scientific and medical literature available on the virus, he charts the scientific progress made in understanding how lethal it is, how it infects us, and how we fight back. The attempt is to understand how to live with the virus, and whether this pandemic will ever end. And if it will, what will our lives be like after that.
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Deadliest Enemy
By Dr Michael T Osterholm and Mark Olshaker

Originally published in 2017, the idea for this book came following the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Charting the history of global diseases, this bestseller explored the biological and scientific crisis in the world today. Its 2020 edition comes with a new preface on the Coronavirus crisis. In the book, authors Osterholm, founding-director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and Olshaker, who is an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker, does a deep dive into the killer germs. The chapter we found interesting was the one on bioterrorism. With conspiracy theories surrounding bio weaponry, this gives a better picture.  
Price: Rs 699

COVID-19
By Debora MacKenzie

“If your house burns down, you ask two things. First, how did a fire get started in the house, to begin with? Second, and most urgently, given that it did—and we saw it happen—why didn’t we put it out before it spread?” MacKenzie, who has been reporting on emerging diseases for more than three decades, uses this question as analogy in her book, COVID-19 (Hachette India), when discussing why the pandemic should never have happened. She discusses the history of SARS and MERS, and how those outbreaks had foretold the arrival of something more dangerous. She explains why it is too simplistic to “blame the bats” alone, because it’s actually hard to catch the viruses from them. 
Price: Rs 699