In 2013, science writer David Quammen wrote an editorial in the New York Times entitled “The Next Pandemic: Not if, but When.” Quammen has been writing about the spread of diseases between humans and animals since his book “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic.” Quammen will be giving a lecture sponsored by Oregon State University. We’ll talk to him about the ecology and evolution of the coronavirus.
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