It has long been believed that David Quammen, a science writer, foresaw the Covid-19 breakout seven years before the global pandemic struck.

His book, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, was published in 2012 after he conducted interviews with prominent experts in epidemiology and virology.

He cautioned that a coronavirus that was spilled from a wild animal in a damp market, presumably in China, would probably cause the next pandemic. Continues…