Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics.
They never know for sure who else might be listening in..
Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them.
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.
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.
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 thirteen-year-old girl\'s science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control.
The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected.
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.
Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios.
Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics
