No idea, sorry.
> favorite books on how things work at that scale
I've found the bionumbers database[1] very helpful. Google scholar and sci-hub for primary and secondary literature. But books... I'd welcome suggestions. I'm afraid I mostly look at related books to be inspired by things taught badly.
The bionumbers folks did a "Cell Biology by the Numbers" book... the draft is online[2].
Ha, they've done a Covid-19 by the numbers flyer[3].
If you ever encounter something nice -- paper, video, text, or whatever, or even discussion of what that might look like -- I'd love to hear of it. Sorry I can't be of more help.
[1] https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/search.aspx [2] http://book.bionumbers.org/ [3] http://book.bionumbers.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/SARS-C...