Festival of Books Roundup Science and Medicine: Looking at the Coronavirus and Pandemics With Debora MacKenzie, Nicholas Christakis, Sonia Shah and moderator Soumya Karlamangla. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. When he saw that China was setting up strict quarantines, he got a sense of what we might be in for. “Why weren’t we preparing,” Christakis asked. “I can’t leave the house right now without a piece of paper saying why I’m outside the house,” she said.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 14, 2020 18:33 UTC