Victoria Lee was interviewed in a feature in the French investigative journal Mediapart, headlined "Must We Learn to Live with Microbes?", as part of a series on "Five Lessons to Learn from the Pandemic."
When faced with microbes, we tend to adopt radical, eradicative postures. This is a reflex rooted in our history and in the language we use to talk about viruses and epidemics, say researchers, who are calling for a different approach to viruses.