Book published by Newmag. The cover is hard. Covid-19 is the most important state of medical emergency. In one book, Italian physicist and writer Paolo Giordano summarizes the spread of the virus in today's highly connected world, why it is important, how it affects us, and how we should respond. Giordano links the spread of the virus to false news, the environmental crisis, nationalism and xenophobia, when people have no idea about a new kind of global community. This realistic, rigorous and inspiring book is for anyone who wants to understand how we got to where we are now and where we are going. The book includes two articles by the Jewish historian and philosopher Yuval Noy Harari on the coronavirus. Italian writer and screenwriter Paolo Giordano (born 1982) gained worldwide fame with his novel The Loneliness of Simple Numbers (2008). It won the Strega (Italian Booker) Prize and was published in more than 40 languages with a circulation of և 1.5 million. Paolo Giordano is a physicist-theorist, PhD. The author wrote the book "Pandemia" in Rome, at his home, when it was the hottest period of the virus in the country. 144 pages