Acknowledgments and further reading

This Technology Quarterly was written by Geoffrey Carr, Slavea Chankova, Hal Hodson, Alok Jha and Oliver Morton

In addition to the people mentioned in the text, the authors would like to thank the following people:
John Bamforth, Cheryl Bennet, Rob Blackie, James Bradner, Rob Carlson, Ashley Chang, Thomas Crampton, Paul Dabrowski, Sarah Dry, Carly Gasca, Dylan George, Salim Abdool Karim, Esther Krofah, John Mccauley, Jonathan Quick, Zachary Sun, Soumya Swaminathan, Evan Tachovsky, Michael Veale, Drew Weissman, Leo Wolansky

Selected further reading:

Testing and tracing:
A Royal Society report on Test, Trace, Isolate and Report
An excellent government document on PCR

Therapeutics:
On drug approaches for pandemic viruses
On the new ways of doing drug trials:

Vaccine production:
The World’s First Immunization Campaign: The Spanish Smallpox Vaccine Expedition, 1803–1813
https://www.historyofvaccines.org

Disease surveillance and forecasting:
On the Global Virome Project
On the Global Immunological Observatory
On pandemic-proofing the planet
The End of Epidemics by Jonathan Quick (2018), Scribe UK

Robert FitzRoy and weather forecasting
“Fishermen and Forecasts: How Barometers Helped Make the Meteorological Department Safer in Victorian Britain” by Sarah Dry (2007), LSE Centre for analysis of Risk and Regulation discussion paper 46
“This Thing of Darkness” by Harry Thompson (2006), Headline Books
Storm Troupers: The Fight to Forecast the Weather