Release today of a collective work dedicated to COVID-19, published by Le Cherche Midi, in which I had the pleasure of contributing.
Has the world entered a new epidemic era? What does science have to say? For several years now, scientists have been warning of the emergence of new diseases and the influence of environmental and social factors on health.
COVID-19 and the health crisis it provoked have precipitated a new awareness of the dangers posed to humanity by viruses, coronaviruses and other variants. In this book, researchers, physicians, biologists and epidemiologists set out to tell the “natural history of this disease”: to recount its pandemic history and the questions it has raised, to understand viruses and coronaviruses, their differences, their location, their modes of transmission and the risks of crossing species, to take stock of the mechanisms of infection, replication and the notions of mutation and recombination. Beyond the polemics, the book takes stock of advances in research into this type of disease, as well as vaccination to protect against it. An essential review of a pandemic that has often been treated more on its medical and health aspects than on its scientific ones. This is a major contribution by scientists to the general public, enabling us today to better measure the risks of this new pandemic era, and to provide keys to protection against it.
Le Cherche Midi Publisher, produced with the CNRS, the Institut écologie et environnement (INEE) and the Institut national des sciences biologiques (INSB). Collective work edited by Florence Débarre, Agnès Mignot, Serge Morand, Françoise Praz. Foreword by Arnaud Fontanet
Respiratory coinfections 