A gripping suspense story, a global thriller where scientific disputes, an epidemic of disinformation and geopolitical rivalries mingle.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global event whose full impact we have yet to grasp. Every single one of us lived it, lost in a huge flow of true and false information that enveloped this tragedy of a thick fog.

How did events unfold? What did politicians and scientists know? What did they not know? Which pieces of information were concealed?

Thanks to thousands of documents that were recently released publicly, it is now possible to uncover the truth. Declassified intelligence agency notes, emails between researchers, Chinese government directives, sworn testimonies from American decision-makers, text messages between ministers and European presidents… These are all pieces of an immense puzzle that William Audureau put together and organized to present the first global history of COVID-19.

A story that first resembles a countdown, as this tragedy was a catastrophe waiting to happen, before turning into a disaster movie.