- pandemics, viral infections, public health, the health bureaucracy
How three groups — a California public health official, an incidental virologist, and a presidential pandemic task force — came together to deal with viral infections, including COVID, and the American public-health system, including the Center for Disease Control.
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Michael Lewis
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, W. W. Norton & Company
- Editions
- 2
- ISBN
- 9780393881554
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“Laura Glass was thirteen years old and entering the eighth grade at Jefferson Middle School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when she looked over her father’s shoulder to see what he was working on.”
Michael Monroe Lewis is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist. His bestselling books include Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, Moneyball, and others. - Wikipedia
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