How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness, and Community in Times of Global Crises - The essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate

‘Lucid, calm, informed, directly helpful in trying to think about where we are now… The literature of the time after begins here’ Evening Standard

‘Taking a breather from bewildering statistics & terrible tales of
contagion to read Giordano’s book was a jolt of brevity & simplicity…
It takes concepts that have been dancing away in our minds, just out of
reach, & lines them up neatly’ The Times

‘Potent & original’ Sunday Times

‘In one short hour, in the midst of this difficult moment, Giordano
reinforced my sense of hope in humanity, in the one & the many’ Philippe Sands, author of East West Street and The Rat Line

The Covid-19 pandemic is the most significant health emergency of our time.

Writing from Italy in lockdown, physicist & novelist Paolo Giordano explains how disease spreads in our interconnected world:

why it matters
how it impacts us
how we must react

Expanding his focus to include other forms of contagion - from the environmental crisis to fake news & xenophobia - Giordano shows us not just how we got here but also how we can work together to create change.

Paolo Giordano is a physicist & the author of four bestselling
novels. His article ‘The Mathematics of Contagion’ – published in Italy
at the beginning of the coronavirus emergency – was shared more than 4 million times & helped shift public opinion in the early stages of the epidemic.