RCIScience Summer Reads: Pandemic

Sep 15, 2020  7:30pm - 8:30pm

Event URL:  https://www.scienceliteracy.ca/event/1544/
Cost:  Free
Hosted by: Science Literacy Week

Join RCIScience for a conversation with Pandemic author and award-winning science journalist Sonia Shah!

Published in 2016, Pandemic is an especially chilling read when viewed through 2020's lens, appearing downright prophetic in some chapters. It presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity — and shows how history can prepare us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time. 

Hone your armchair epidemiology skills and follow cholera as it germinated in the Sundarbans in India, spreading to Europe then sailing to the New World. Learn how pathogens jump from animals to people and why habitat encroachment by humans is only making this easier. You'll even get a summary of the musical Hamilton in a chapter about the cholera outbreak in New York in the early 1830s!

This is one author Q&A you won't want to miss!