A review by jeremyanderberg
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen

4.0

My initial, instinctual rating for this book was a 3. What bumps it up to a 4 are two things: 1) there are some absolutely brilliant lines and takeaways between the dense science and 2) it's obvious that Quammen did a *ridiculous* amount of research in a small period of time to get this book published. It's an important work of history and it's a guarantee that you can trust whatever is coming from Quammen's pen. It's a spectacular book, if often inaccessible, on the science and early history of the COVID-19 pandemic.