This is a gripping tale of an intensivist grappling with the mayhem a novel corona virus has unleashed on the World in year 2020.
In a story scanning across continents and oceans, find how an un-celled organism gained its virulence and lethality? Where and how did it origin? Why it chose humans as vector and host? Be witness to this drama, step by step, as the virus clutches the whole planet in its jaws, with no one spared, no government unaffected and no city untouched. Find the utter desperation of modern healthcare and brilliant minds to invent a cure, a miracle pill perhaps, where no conventional medicine seems to be working. Notice the deluge of hospitals with plethora of geriatrics, huffing and gasping to vie for limited ventilators. They naively pursued disseminating the virus in unsuspecting paramedics with each cough, with each sneeze and sometimes with just a tender touch! With mighty governments, shrewd diplomats, royal aristocrats and menacing military stooped down to their knees, bowing as supplicants to this tiny fragment of apparently innocuous nucleic acid in both, reverence and hate.
Ravi Kumar, a middle aged celibate intensivist, guileless of what this new invisible yet pervasive demon is bringing in his life, worked with nonchalance in his intensive care Unit. Soon he finds himself locked in remote squalid dilapidated isolation camp, hounded equally by military and media. He became the victim not only of this outbreak, but also of the people, the constitution and the government. Can he survive this onslaught? Can he escape death? Can he achieve redemption? Will he ever stand vindicated or will just be another irrelevant pawn in this tidal wave of death. Get ready to dive in this tsunami of unprecedented global pandemic, the outbreak 2020.
