From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19--its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it A book of panoramic breadth ...
In turns steely-eyed, sympathetic, infuriated, unexpectedly comical, and always precise, Lawrence Wright is a formidable guide, slicing through the dense fog of misinformation to give us a 360-degree portrait of the catastrophe we thought we knew..
And in this full accounting, Wright makes clear that the medical professionals around the country who\'ve risked their lives to fight the virus reveal and embody an America in all its vulnerability, courage, and potential. inside the human body, diving deep into the science of how the virus and vaccines function--with an eye-opening detour into the history of vaccination and of the modern anti-vaccination movement. . . into Broadway\'s darkened theaters and Austin\'s struggling music venues . . . into the precincts of prediction specialists at Goldman Sachs . . . into a Covid ward in a Charlottesville hospital, with an idealistic young woman doctor from the town of Little Africa, South Carolina . . . inside the halls of the White House, where Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger\'s early alarm about the virus was met with confounding and drastically costly skepticism . . .
Wright takes us inside the CDC, where a first round of faulty test kits lost America precious Time .
Capitol to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Lawrence Wright\'s The Plague Year tells the story of Covid-19 in authoritative, galvanizing detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the pandemic. -- The New York Times Book Review From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the storming of the U.
S. [With] lively exchanges about spike proteins and nonpharmaceutical interventions and disease waves, Wright\'s storytelling dexterity makes all this come alive. thought we knew well ... managing to surprise us about even those episodes we ...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19--its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it A book of panoramic breadth ..
