Thread by @PoliticsReid

Hey folks, if you'll indulge me, a bit of a thread: I wrote a book that's coming out next week, and I'm kinda proud of it. So here are 24 tweets in hopes of getting you to buy it.

The book is Epidemic: Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak. I do my best to tell the story of the 2014-2015 outbreak in West Africa. amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 2/24

I made a little preview website here, complete with an excerpt, behind-the-scenes photos and some videos featuring Ebola czar @RonaldKlain --> epidemicbook.com 3/24

Book comes out Tuesday, but Amazon is shipping it already. Spoiler alert, I hope you buy it and read it. Here's why, in rest of thread: amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 4/24

Ebola was a major threat to global public health. We stopped it. But are we ready for the next outbreak? Probably not. amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 5/24

The question isn't whether we'll experience another outbreak. It's when the next one will come. amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 6/24

The world is becoming more susceptible to another outbreak. Growing cities put us in closer proximity to nature. Climate change expands the range of the subtropics & tropics. amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 7/24

The booming middle classes in Africa & Asia, plus the proliferation of air travel, mean more people than ever are traveling - and viruses have more vectors to spread. amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 8/24

This is a story of incredible good luck, and incredible misfortune. It's about the best public health teams in the world helping the poorest countries on Earth amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 9/24

It's also a story about some incredible heroes from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, who ran toward an unfolding disaster as everyone else ran away. amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 10/24

"I've worked in earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes. I've seen famine, I've worked in war zones. I've never seen anything like that. ... It was a scene out of Dante," said then-CDC chief @DrFrieden amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 11/24

Here's @DrFrieden during his visit to an Ebola treatment center in Monrovia. He called it "a scene out of Dante"
amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 12/24

There are a thousand incredible stories from the outbreak - like how Obama phones actually existed. Here's @RonaldKlain on how the Obama admin handed out phones to foreigners -
amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 13/24

There were moments when the US government was really concerned about the Ebola virus crossing the Atlantic and breaking out in the US. amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 14/24

One scary moment: An African leaders summit in DC in Aug 2014. Secret Service and DHS trained to spot someone coming down w/ Ebola. Fortunately, no one did. amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 15/24

Obama admin did an analysis of when the Ebola outbreak entered the American consciousness. They settled on Aug 1, 2014 - thanks in part to this tweet from who else, @realdonaldtrump

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This is a photo of Meliandou, Guinea, where a little boy named Emile was the first to contract the Ebola virus in 2013
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Here's Maj. Gen. Gary Volesky, commanding officer of the 101st Airborne, having his temperature taken by a Liberian soldier
amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 18/24

Scary thought experiment: The 101st helped turn the tide on Ebola. US approval rating in Liberia is ~99%. What if this outbreak happened in Pakistan, or Indonesia, or anyplace where the arrival of the US military WASN'T seen as a blessed event? amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 19/24

Ebola czar @RonaldKlain talked about meeting some of the Americans who went to West Africa to help contain the virus, and some who got Ebola themselves:
amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 20/24

Tons of lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak, including some implemented during the Zika outbreak. But there's so much more the global community needs to do to prepare for the next outbreak amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 21/24

What public health officials fear most: Something that combines the lethality of Ebola with the transmissibility of Zika. Something like a really bad flu. Which might already be here. amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 22/24

My apologies to @DrReidWilson, whose Amazon results I'm now imposing upon. He's written books about anxiety disorders. My book will probably cause a bunch of anxiety. Sorry, Doc. amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 23/24

In conclusion, please check out the book website: epidemicbook.com. And buy the book today, so my Amazon rank goes up! Thanks for reading a long thread. amazon.com/Epidemic-Globa… 24/24