An important book for our times was published last year: The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
by Gad Saad, Regnery, 2020. The idea of viruses of the mind came from, I think Richard Dawkins’ idea of memes, units of cultural inheritance, analogous to genes. There were books written about this, but these works did not use the idea of mind viruses to analyse what we are facing now. Saad’s book bravely tackles this.
https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X