"Over the past few decades a number of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) have disrupted societies throughout the world, including HIV, Ebola, H5N1 (or 'avian flu') and SARS, and of course the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease which spread worldwide to become a global pandemic. As well as EIDs,...

1. Prologue -- 2. Gut feelings: Biases, heuristics and Covid-19 -- 3. Pathogens and probabilities -- 4. Should we trust people to do the right thing? -- 5. Politics, pathogens and party lines -- 6. Irrational exuberance in the midst of Covid-19 -- 7. Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.