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Best known for his masterful storytelling about various complicated subjects, Michael Lewis writes about the initial response of the United States when the novel coronavirus made its way from China to America. In The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, he draws from the experiences and insights of a group of scientists and medical professionals and tells a “superhero story where the superheroes seem to lose the war.” In his depiction of this grim reality, Lewis wants readers to know what had transpired behind the scenes of crisis response while giving them the benefit of formulating their own “what-ifs” if only the valiant cries of these superheroes were heard.
The Premonition is a certified New York Times bestseller and a Kirkus Reviews starred book, which, with 7,329 global ratings and an almost perfect score of 4.8 out of 5, ranks first in various Amazon book charts, including Communicable Diseases, 21st Century History of the United States, and Medical History.
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Did You Know?
Michael Lewis, the author, reveals that the title for The Premonition: A Pandemic Story was originally The Ones Who Knew.
However, he changed it out of consideration for the individuals who shared their stories through his book, thinking that such a title might paint them in a bad light.
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Michael Lewis taps on the background of various individuals and connects them together to tell the story of how the United States responded to and coped with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Engineer Bob Glass and his daughter Laura worked together on the latter's science fair project. Their model, which took into account people's social networks and their movements
and the proximity wherein infection transmission of an airborne pathogen is highly probable, didn't win the final science competition, but it would become the model for pandemic social distancing protocols. Among their conclusions was the closing down of schools to keep children in isolation and prevent the spread of flu-like diseases.
Charity Dean was a former public health officer in California who, in her own ways, did her best to uphold the heroism of the medical profession. During her tenure, she witnessed the truth about medical state facilities–they lack resources both materially and financially. Unfortunately, the government didn't see the urgency to maintain a fixed budget for public health, and Dean saw how they