“The Covid‑19 pandemic made the ocean of gases surrounding us visible,” Zimmer writes. “Air-Borne” shows us the ways seeing where we live means listening deeply — and being prepared to ...

Tuesday marked the fifth anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring Covid-19 a global pandemic.For science writer Carl Zimmer, a columnist for the New York Times, covering Covid meant ...

Using the outbreak among a Washington state choir, Zimmer chillingly describes how COVID-19 spread through the air and the frustrating rifts among health officials during the pandemic about ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was not a fluke. It belongs to a deep history of airborne life, ... Adapted from AIR-BORNE by Carl Zimmer, to be published on 2/25/2025 by Dutton, ...

According to Zimmer, research by the Wellses was largely forgotten until the Covid-19 pandemic brought their work on the spread of air-borne diseases back into the limelight.

Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens. By Carl Zimmer and Apoorva Mandavilli ...

A mask lies on a sidewalk. It’s hard to believe it's been five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, the disease has killed more than 1.2 million Americans—more than in ...

Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe Carl Zimmer Dutton (2025). In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, one of the most pressing questions for researchers was how the ...