Huremović D, editor. Psychiatry of Pandemics: a Mental Health Response to Infection Outbreak

The series of chapters was envisaged as an all-encompassing review of the available research in the narrow niche of psychiatric consequences of a pandemic. Serendipitously, the book was published before the outbreak of COVID-19, and at several places forebodes the emergence of a Disease X, explaining the reasons that increase the odds of this scenario. Today, several months later, it sounds as a feeble voice of a prophet, drowned by the noise of the actual coronavirus pandemic.