COVID-19, the illness caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the second severe acute respiratory syndrome virus since 2002, is now officially a pandemic. As of late March, whole cities are sheltered in place and, one by one, hospitals are lighting up in medical gridlock brought about by surges in patients.
About Rob Wallace
Rob Wallace is an evolutionary epidemiologist at the Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps and Pandemic Research for the People. He is author of
Big Farms Make Big Flu, Dead Epidemiologists , and most recently
The Fault in Our SARS , all with Monthly Review Press. He is also co-author of the more technical monographs
Neoliberal Ebola and
Clear-Cutting Disease Control , both
with Springer
. Wallace has consulted for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the CDC, and the People’s CDC.
About Alex Liebman
Alex Liebman is a PhD student in human geography at Rutgers University, with a MSc in agronomy from the University of Minnesota.
About Luis Fernando Chaves
Luis Fernando Chaves is a disease ecologist and was a Senior Researcher at the Costa Rican Institute for Research and Education on Nutrition and Health in Tres Rios, Costa Rica.
About Rodrick Wallace
Rodrick Wallace is a research scientist in the Division of Epidemiology of the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University.
