Bibliograph

On the origin of the deadliest pandemic in 100 years, an investigation, Elaine Dewar

Type

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On the origin of the deadliest pandemic in 100 years, an investigation, Elaine Dewar

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

On the origin of the deadliest pandemic in 100 years

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Elaine Dewar

Series statement

Field notes, #4

Sub title

an investigation

Summary

In this compulsive whodunnit, Elaine Dewar reads the science, follows the money, and connects the geopolitical interests to the spin. When the first TV newscast described a SARS-like flu affecting a distant Chinese metropolis, investigative journalist Elaine Dewar started asking questions: Was SARS-CoV-2 something that came from nature, as leading scientists insisted, or did it come from a lab, and what role might controversial experiments have played in its development? Why was Wuhan the pandemic's ground zero-and why, on the other side of the Atlantic, had two researchers been marched out of a lab in Winnipeg by the RCMP? Why were governments so slow to respond to the emerging pandemic, and why, now, is the government of China refusing to cooperate with the World Health Organization? And, who or what, is DRASTIC? Locked down in Toronto with the world at a standstill, Dewar pored over newspapers and magazines, preprints and peer-reviewed journals, email chains and blacked-out responses to access to information requests, she conducted Zoom interviews and called telephone numbers, until someone answered as she hunted down the truth of the virus's origin. In this compulsive whodunnit, she reads the science, follows the money, connects the geopolitical interests to the spin-and shows how leading science journals got it wrong, leaving it to interested citizens and junior scientists to pull out the truth

Target audience

adult

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