This week’s episode is our audio bookclub conversation about Michael Lewis’ The Premonition. The book is about the state-level & federal bureaucrats who foresaw the pandemic, as early as the George W. Bush administration. It lays out the pandemic response plans they built, how they were passed on to the Obama administration, and eventually discarded by the Trump administration in 2017, with disastrous consequences.
Note: Our next #NerdFarmReads selection is Dopesick by Beth Macy. You can grab it from our friends at Libro FM (join using promo code “tacoma”).
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Going Further
- CDC to cut by 80 percent efforts to prevent global disease outbreak – Washington Post
- The Great Influenza by John Barry
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