SARS-CoV-2

Perhaps other than virologists, few people would have predicted that a tiny microbe would dominate global headlines for several months in 2020. It goes without saying that the coronavirus has kept us quite busy.

This article was originally published at Geopolitical Futures.

David Gura, an MSNBC anchor I've never heard of, apparently has a TV show called "Up." And, like most cable TV show hosts, he has opinions.

Before modern study of microbiology, how diseases spread was essentially unknown.