The news out of China was not good: there were signs that a new disease might be big--scary big, like a brushfire coming at you uphill.
A local public-health officer uses her worm\'s-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths a.
A thirteen-year-old girl\'s science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. or yesterday.
It is a race against time, and the deadline is now...
Michael Lewis\'s riveting nonfiction thriller pits a rogue band of visionaries, working under the radar, against the weight and disinterest of officialdom.
Authorities, medical and political, saw no reason to worry and little need for tests.
The news out of China was not good: there were signs that a new disease might be big--scary big, like a brushfire coming at you uphill
