The extraordinary book, The Premonition, by Michael Lewis, is the subject of our conversation. It gets behinds the scenes of public health/CDC long before and during the pandemic. We spoke just days before the fatal car accident of his 19-year-old daughter
medscape.com/viewarticle/95…
medscape.com/viewarticle/95…
Our deep condolences.
He had no hesitation for this discussion to be posted —he really wants the story to reach the medical community.
It stitches together these people. Michael is perhaps the best storyteller of our era; it's truly fascinating and germane pre- & intra-pandemic
He had no hesitation for this discussion to be posted —he really wants the story to reach the medical community.
It stitches together these people. Michael is perhaps the best storyteller of our era; it's truly fascinating and germane pre- & intra-pandemic
Lewis traces back 15 years before the pandemic to show the inadequacies of the CDC and US public health resources. CDOR Center for Disease Observation and Reporting. The metaphor of watering plastic flowers
Ironically, Joe DeRisi, a protagonist, was the 1st to use genome sequencing to determine root cause of an epidemic (SARS, 2003), yet the US has had weak genomic surveillance in the pandemic
https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1400449094699556867
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