The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, by Michael Lewis, is a new book that describes the efforts of scientists and public health officials before and during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Readers may be interested in reading the original papers from the DeRisi Lab that are described in the book. PDFs of the original papers, ordered by mention in the book, are detailed below. This includes supporting information and links to online lectures by Dr. DeRisi.
Additional resources are at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.



Chapter 6: The Original Papers and Supporting Information

Papers from the first SARS, 2003

• 2003 - Identification of SARS coronavirus
  
• 2003 - Using the ViroChip and Sequencing to recover SARS-1 genome sequence
  
• 2003 - Genome characterization of SARS coronavirus
  
• Lecture: HHMI 2010, SARS and other Viral Mysteries
  
• Lecture: HHMI 2010, Viral Hunter's Toolkit
  

Snake Arenavirus - Discovery and Characterization

• 2012 - Identification of reptile arenavirus in boas and pythons
  
• 2015 - An engine of viral diversity in snake arenaviruses
  
• 2017 - Proving Koch's Postulates and snake arenavirus
  
• 2013 - Snake arenavirus and Ebola - GP Protein Structure
  
• 2018 - Ebola Virus replicates in Boa cells just fine.
  
• Lecture: - Metagenomics for Virus Discovery: Snakes!
  
• Podcast: - Discussing Snake Viruses with Adam Savage!
  
• Podcast: - TWiV, An arena for snakes.
  

The Red Phone: Metagenomics for Infectious Disease Discovery in Humans

• 2018 - The Red Phone. Case series of patients
  
• 2015 - Diagnosis of Balamuthia in a fatal case of encephalitis
  
• 2015 - UCSF News: Next-Gen Genomic Tests, Brain Eating Amoeba
  
• 2018 - Searching for drugs to fight Balamuthia infection
  
• 2017 - Discovery of Cache Valley Virus in a fatal case of encephalitis
  
• 2018 - The good news, and the bad news. Worms in the brain.
  
• 2016 - Metagenomics for infections in the eye.
  
• 2014 - Diagnosis of Leptosporosis in a young child.
  

A platform for global monitoring of infectious disease: IDseq

• 2020 - The IDseq Platform
  
• 2020 - The IDseq Platform technical paper
  
• 2020 - IDseq in action: Dhaka, Bangladesh
  
• 2019 - Mini-documentary: Infectious Disease Detectives in Bangladesh
  
• 2019 - VR Version Mini-documentary: Infectious Disease Detectives in Bangladesh
  
• 2020 - IDseq in action: Cambodia
  

Chapter 10: The COVID-19 Pandemic

• 2020 - The CLIAHUB: Volunteer driven clinical testing
  
• Video Clip - The CLIAHUB at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
  
• News Clip - Priscilla Chan and the fight against COVID-19
  
• 2020 - The disproportionate burden of COVID-19 in San Francisco
  
• 2020 - The disproportionate burden of COVID-19 in San Francisco
  
• 2020 - Genomic Epidemiology in Action in San Francisco
  
• 2020 - Deployment of Rapid Antigen Tests in SF: Field Performance