colleen_parks 's review for:

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis

4.0

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Another great one from Lewis. He delves into public health and the big and small players in those roles, with a focus on COVID and the government's response to it in the Trump years. The CDC is a villain in this book; rather than working on public health, they appear to work just on research. I was convinced by the end that the CDC should just be a research institute and that we need a new institution for public health at the federal level. As usual in his books, it's the people who start off as bit players that really save the day (well, to the extent that it's been saved, which is not much). Overall, an excellent book.