Summary of Michael Lewis's The Premonition
(2021)

Nonfiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : IRB, 2021
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781638155447 (electronic bk.) MWT14439449, 1638155445 (electronic bk.) 14439449
LANGUAGE
English
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Get the Summary of Michael Lewis's The Premonition in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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

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