The Premonition
A Pandemic Story
Michael Lewis
Nonfiction thriller pits medical visionaries against the official response of the Trump administration to COVID-19. Follow a team of dissenting doctors who refuse to follow directives based on misinformation and bad science. Michael Lewis presents heroes who study pandemics and are willing to look at worst-case scenarios. Explore fascinating characters, including a thirteen-year-old girl with a science project that develops into a model of disease control and a public health officer who reveals truths about American society.
Publish Date
2021-05-04T00:00:00.000Z
2021-05-04T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
4.34
ISBN
9780393881554
Recommendations
4
Recommendations
2021-06-04T18:03:59.000Z
The extraordinary book, The Premonition, by Michael Lewis, is the subject of our conversation. It gets behinds the scenes of public health/CDC long before and during the pandemic. We spoke just days before the fatal car accident of his 19-year-old daughter – source2021-05-31T16:29:24.000Z
Just finished the book and wow. SO good.
The US healthcare system is an absolute shit show (surprising no one). But having worked at the CDC for a brief moment in time and seeing how the nation’s highest public health agency works, there was no hope for us. It’s all political. – source2021-09-01T15:24:24.000Z
This book is a great prompt to appreciate people who are good at their jobs; diverse life stories where people bring foresight, learning, & risk taking to the serious things they’re responsible for. It’s great. – source2021-05-25T04:41:25.000Z
Of Michael Lewis’s 15 amazing books his new one, THE PREMONITION, is the most gripping and the most consequential.
The best yet on Covid, one of the best ever on government malfunction. – source