PositiveThe Washington Independent Review of Books\"Foreign Bodies isn’t about the recent pandemic, but the reader soon realizes that once covid ambushed the world in 2020, Fauci, Paul, and others were fated to reprise roles written long ago and acted many times ... he engagingly investigates science vs. germs — smallpox in the 1700s, cholera and plague in the 1800s. It’s not a full account, however, even for the period covered. Edward Jenner, inventor of the smallpox vaccine, is barely mentioned, and Louis Pasteur is unavoidable but flits in and out. Instead, Schama is interested in lesser-known bug-seekers slighted by history.\
