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In On the Origin of the Worst Pandemic in 100 Years, investigative journalist Elaine Dewar spins a contemporary whodunnit featuring the untold stories of the scientists, the networks, the governments and their interests. Compulsively exploring the pandemic genesis from the first moment she came across news of the SARS-like flu affecting a distant Chinese metropolis, she began asking key questions to which there were no easy answers. Was COVID something that came from nature, as scientific consensus seemed at the time to suggest, or was it man made? Was it the result of a lab leak or of spillover from another species? Why did Wuhan become ground zero for this pandemic, and what is so special about "the Chicago of China"? Who is Shi Zhengli, Wuhan's Bat Woman, and what light might her experiments shed on the pandemic's origins? Who are Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Cheng, and what is the connection between them, Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg where they worked and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where Zhengli worked and which some believe the source of the lab leak? What is gain of function and passaging, and what role may these controversial scientific practices have played in the development of COVID-19? Why is the Chinese government not cooperating with the WHO and other governments to get to the bottom things, and did they go so far as to destroy evidence? And who, or what, exactly is D.R.A.S.T.I.C.? Sorting through the science and following the money, Dewar parses the possibilities and finds that there is plenty of blame to go around.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Dewar, Elaine
- ISBN: 9781771964258
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 7.72 x 1.18
- Number Of Pages: 472
- Publication Year: 2021