How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises

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

　　Writing from Italy in lockdown, physicist and novelist Paolo Giordano explains how disease spreads in our interconnected world: why it matters, how it impacts us, how we must react.

　　By expanding his focus to include other forms of contagion – from the environmental crisis to fake news and xenophobia – Giordano shows us not just how we got here but also how we can work together to move forward.

　　Paolo Giordano is a physicist and the author of four bestselling novels. His article ‘The Mathematics of Contagion’ – published in Italy at the beginning of the Covid-19 emergency – was shared more than 4 million times and helped shift public opinion in the early stages of the epidemic.

　　Translated from the Italian by Alex Valente