Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Lewis, Michael

The premonition : a pandemic story / Michael Lewis. - First edition. - New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2021. - xv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Hardback book.

Introduction : The missing Americans -- Part I. Prologue : The looking glass -- Dragon -- The making of a public-health officer -- The pandemic thinker -- Stopping the unstoppable -- Clairvoyance -- Part II. The red phone -- The redneck epidemiologist -- In Mann Gulch -- The L6 -- Part III. The bug in the system -- Plastic flowers -- Epilogue : The sin of omission.

Michael Lewis's nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19. 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... except official permission to implement their work.

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COVID-19 (Disease)--Forecasting.
COVID-19 (Disease)--Research.
Coronavirus infections--China--Wuhan.
Infectious Diseases.

RA644.C67 / L49 2021

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