Although I’ve been housebound lately, like many people. (Editor’s note: This interview has been condensed and edited for length and clarity.)ĭan Drollette Jr: Sounds like you’re busy lately. He cautions against being overly optimistic about the development of a vaccine, saying the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 will likely be around in some form for generations: “This virus is never going to be gone.” Quammen also talks a little about his next book (still untitled, but about the coronavirus). In this interview, the Bulletin’s Dan Drollette Jr talks with the author, who lives in Bozeman, Montana, about what drew him to this topic, the nature of new viruses, why more are expected to emerge, and what makes some viruses more likely to infect humans than others. The consensus: There would indeed be a new disease, likely from the coronavirus family, coming out of a bat, and it would likely emerge in or around a wet market in China.īut what was not predictable was how unprepared we would be. In 2012, author David Quammen wrote a book, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, that was the result of five years of research on scientists who were looking into the possibility of another Ebola-type disease emerging.
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