THE PREMONITION: A PANDEMIC STORY BY MICHAEL LEWIS (Book Summary 2021)

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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 on 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.

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. Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them. They never know for sure who else might be listening in

Here are the top seven lessons from the book THE PREMONITION: A PANDEMIC STORY BY MICHAEL LEWIS

0:00 - Introduction
0:50 - Lesson 1
1:26 - Lesson 2
2:02 - Lesson 3
2:38 - Lesson 4
3:13 - Lesson 5
3:45 - Lesson 6
4:13 - Lesson 7
4:42 - Conclusion

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💡 In his book The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, acclaimed author Michael Lewis explains how the pandemic opened many people’s eyes to the importance of science and healthcare in ensuring humanity’s survival. It is a timely reflection of when the federal government itself underestimated the impact of the outbreak. The Premonition contains narratives of “hidden” superheroes during the pandemic — such as experts who learned from past epidemics and pandemics to experts who worked with policymakers. The story also magnifies political and institutional problems that hindered preparedness and action from containing the virus at earlier stages. Nevertheless, such problems produced implications and lessons worth considering for better preparedness in future similar medical crises. What do you think about it?

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