This I just came across and thought extremely interesting. It's not about covid, but thalidomide, however, who isn't going to make some elephantiney obvious analogies? It has just been published by a major publisher and, from the pre-pub blurbs, it looks like it is getting a big marketing push. I suspect that a lot of journalists who cannot cover covid the way they would like to will, as a way of saying the otherwise unsayable, glom onto this thalidomide story and shower the book with kudos (which it may well deserve). It is:

"Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and its Hidden Victims" https://www.jennifervanderbes.com/wonder-drug


Here are some of the blurbs:

"A first-rate medical thriller." -Patrick Radden Keefe

"A deeply researched and chilling must read." - Publishers Weekly, Starred

"Novelistic...riveting... A significant work." - Kirkus, Starred

"Fascinating and compassionate." - PEOPLE Magazine

"Narrative non-fiction at its most compelling." - Margot Lee Shetterly