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THE PREMONITION - A PANDEMIC STORY - MICHAEL LE...

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-eye view to see what the CDC misses  and reveals great truths about American society. A
secret team of dissenting doctors  nicknamed the Wolverines  has everything necessary to fight
the pandemic: brilliant backgrounds  world-class labs  prior experience with the pandemic
scares of bird flu and swine flu...everything  that is  except official permission to implement
their work. Michael Lewis is not shy about calling these people heroes for their refusal to
follow directives that they know to be based on misinformation and bad science. Even the
internet  as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas  poses a risk to them. They never know
for sure who else might be listening in.

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