David Quammen

David Quammen is an American science and nature writer who is widely regarded as one of the finest science journalists working today. He has written for National Geographic, the New York Times, Harper's and numerous other publications. His book The Song of the Dodo is considered a classic of science writing, and Spillover predicted the risk of the next pandemic years before COVID-19. Breathless is his account of the origins, science and global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, tracing the virus from its likely emergence in Wuhan through the scientific race to understand and contain it. Quammen brings decades of experience covering infectious diseases to create one of the most comprehensive and compelling accounts of the pandemic's early days. Available as both a book and an audiobook, Breathless offers essential listening and reading from one of the world's best science writers — a definitive account of how a novel virus changed the world.