Book HackThe PremonitionBy Michael Lewis
In a Nutshell
Author Michael Lewis explains how an effective pandemic response plan works and why the U.S. didn't implement theirs as soon as COVID-19 struck.
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Here they were, inside the White House, doing exactly what the president of the United States had asked them to do, with money allocated to them by the U.S. congress. But it turned out they still needed to persuade a lot of skeptical people … of their strategy's wisdom.
Michael Lewis
Introduction
In 2019, before the novel coronavirus had even been detected, a group of experts ranked the U.S. global number one in terms of pandemic preparedness.
In the end, 20% of the world's COVID-19 deaths were concentrated in the U.S. — a reflection of the country's deeply flawed pandemic response.
Michael Lewis is a bestselling author whose books include Moneyball and The Big Short, both of which were adapted for screen.
In his 2021 book The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, Lewis chronicles the development of an effective pandemic response and explains why it was not implemented in the U.S. in 2020.
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