You'd think reading a book about pandemics right now might make you more anxious, but thankfully the tone is calm and it's mainly just interesting to see how many of the things he brings up as typical or important for pandemics have been brought to my attention for the first time over the past two months: infections rate, the psychology around pandemics (people not taking a virus serious anymore, once the infection rate goes down, thereby stopping the precautions and getting the rate to rise again, for one thing), how herd immunity works or doesn't work, why bats are especially prone to bear diseases and the role financial interests and social status plays in how pandemics are handled.
I really appreciated the author making clear how big a role animal treatment and animal agriculture play in a lot of pandemics of the past and future. And how much more there will be with the rise of climate change and the deepening divide of the rich and the poor.
Overall a good, short factual but easy to read introduction to the topic. The only thing that made me queasy was the section about worm infections (I could have done without the illustrations).