Diary of the Coronavirus Family

By David Mendes-Nassi and Ruth Beer

Hi, it's nice to meet you. My name is Coronavirus COV-2. It was I who caused the illness COVID-19, also known as the Coronavirus pandemic, and today I have an international reputation as champion of all sorts of other viruses, most of whom I don't actually know.

When my parents created me, they called me Virion. I was tiny and always aggressive, but I lacked a living entity. They said I wouldn't have a life until I'd grown and learned to live.

The Coronavirus family, a rowdy group of viruses who use the Human Beings as entertainment and cause them all sorts of trouble, gathers together and reminisces about the past, including various epidemics that they brought about over the course of history, up until the day that the Coronavirus pandemic broke out, leaving the Human Beings confused and helpless. The Coronavirus, whose name is CoV-2, describes how he caused the pandemic while also voicing some harsh criticism regarding the way the Human Beings chose to cope with it.

This is the tale of the Coronavirus from an unconventional point of view, whose purpose is to educate children and adolescents about how viruses work and ultimately – how to rid ourselves of them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Apr 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9781543764635

David Mendes-Nassi

Prof. David Mendes was born in Rome to a family of physicians. His grandfather Prof. Mendes oversaw the Red Cross hospital in Rome. In 1939 his family migrated to Israel and his father and grandfather were pioneers in the treatment of tuberculosis and its eradication. After completing his residency in orthopedic surgery, he established a hip surgery clinic at a New York hospital. During the Six Day War and The Yom Kippur War he went to Israel to volunteer in the IDF Medical Corps. From 1975 until his retirement in 2002 he ran the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and the Center for Implant Surgery at the Bnei Zion Medical Center in Haifa. He served as a professor on the clinical staff of Yeshiva University in New York, a member of the academic staff at Mt. Sinai in New York and at the Technion in Haifa, organized and oversaw the annual international conferences of the Center for Implant Surgery, and trained a generation of orthopedic surgeons. Today he writes about various subjects and last year he published the book "Who Is Afraid of Medical Malpractice?"

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ISBN

978-1-5437-6459-8 (sc)

978-1-5437-6463-5 (e)

978-1-5437-6460-4 (hc)

04/23/2021

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Contents

Chapter 1     Hi, My Name Is Virion

Chapter 2     Papa Co’s Story

Chapter 3     A Global Epidemic, A Pandemic

Chapter 4     A Vaccine To Combat The Coronavirus Pandemic

Chapter 5     Vaccinations And Mutations Or Variants

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

—Alice in Wonderland

The book is the real story of COVID-19, as told by the illustrated coronavirus family.

The scenes are imaginative and illustrated by Ruth Beer’s style.

This book was written for children and adolescents, and is a parable for the adult world.

All contents of this book are products of the author’s imagination and any

resemblance to real people, names and events is entirely coincidental.

Dedicated With Love

To Ido, Sharone, Yonni, and Georgiana

Limor, Elad

Ido, Nadav, Gaya

The younger generation of our grandchildren

Maya, Carmel, Eliana, Yannai

Amit, Guy

Romie, Alma

Ofek, Shachar

Indie

Our Thanks

To my daughter, Sharone, for the original ideas that helped shape the book’s contents

To Limor, whose advices helped in the design of the illustrations

To my eldest grandson, Carmel, who depicted the laboratory’s Chinese sign

Chapter 1

HI, MY NAME IS VIRION

Hi, it’s nice to meet you.

My name as an adult is Coronavirus CoV-2. It was I who caused the illness Covid-19, also known as the Coronavirus pandemic, and I have an international reputation as a champion of viruses, most of whom I don’t actually know.

When my parents created me, they called me Virion. I was tiny and always aggressive, but I lacked a living entity. They said I wouldn’t have a life until I’d grown and learned to live.

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We were a huge family with lots of brothers and sisters, and my grandfather, whose memory wasn’t quite what it used to be, couldn’t remember our names so he decided to just name us in order: alpha, beta, gamma, delta. The rest he forgot.