IIC DIAMOND JUBILEE TALK – PANDEMIC AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Message in a Bottle: The Lessons of SARS-CoV-2

Speaker: Mr. David Quammen, American author and journalist who has written sixteen books including The Song of the Dodo (1996); The Reluctant Mr. Darwin (2006), and The Tangled Tree (2018). His 2012 book, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, described the dynamics of viral spillover from wildlife into humans and predicted a coming pandemic, possibly caused by a coronavirus

Chair: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India

There are three important questions about SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic: 10 Where did it come from? 2) Where is it going? 3) What does it tell us about the way we humans live – and the way we should live – on this planet. Quammen will address these questions, while placing these virus in its broader historical and scientific context