Coronavirus reads

Librarians Jennifer Alexander of St. Louis County Library and Jen Ohzourk of St. Louis Public Library share their favorite new books of the past year.

Created using a common livestock virus, the lab-engineered hybrid virus infects human cells and interacts with antibodies like the coronavirus but is safer to work with in the lab. Researchers at Washington University are now testing the new virus as a possible coronavirus vaccine candidate.

There’s no time quite like the present for escaping into someone else’s story for a bit, and, even in the technology-crazed 21st century, the written word…