The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
ISBN-13: 9781324035534 Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. Publication date: 04/05/2022 Pages: 320 Sales rank: 72,271 Product dimensions: 8.10(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.90(d) New York Times Bestseller For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19.The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected. A thirteen-year-old girl’s science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. A local public-health officer uses her worm’s