The Plague Year America in the Time of Covid 1st Edition by Wright Lawrence 9780593320730 0593320735

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• ISBN 10: 0593320735
• ISBN 13: 9780593320730
• Author:  Wright Lawrence

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it “A book of panoramic breadth … managing to surprise us about even those episodes we … thought we knew well … [With] lively exchanges about spike proteins and nonpharmaceutical interventions and disease waves, Wright’s storytelling dexterity makes all this come alive.” —The New York Times Book Review From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the storming of the U.S. Capitol to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year tells the story of Covid-19 in authoritative, galvanizing detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the pandemic. Wright takes us inside the CDC, where a first round of faulty test kits lost America precious time . . . inside the halls of the White House, where Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger’s early alarm about the virus was met with confounding and drastically costly skepticism . . . into a Covid ward in a Charlottesville hospital, with an idealistic young woman doctor from the town of Little Africa, South Carolina . . . into the precincts of prediction specialists at Goldman Sachs . . . into Broadway’s darkened theaters and Austin’s struggling music venues . . . inside the human body, diving deep into the science of how the virus and vaccines function—with an eye-opening detour into the history of vaccination and of the modern anti-vaccination movement. And in this full accounting, Wright makes clear that the medical professionals around the country who’ve risked their lives to fight the virus reveal and embody an America in all its vulnerability, courage, and potential. In turns steely-eyed, sympathetic, infuriated, unexpectedly comical, and always precise, Lawrence Wright is a formidable guide, slicing through the dense fog of misinformation to give us a 360-degree portrait of the catastrophe we thought we knew.

Table contents:

Chapter 1: “It’s Going to Be Just Fine”
Chapter 2: The Trickster
Chapter 3: Spike
Chapter 4: “An Evolving Situation”
Chapter 5: “Flatten the Curve”
Chapter 6: “It’s Coming to You”
Chapter 7: “Nothing Can Stop What’s Coming”
Chapter 8: The Doom Loop
Chapter 9: “Let It Be March”
Chapter 10: “It’s Like a Wind”
Chapter 11: Bellevue
Chapter 12: The No Plan Plan
Chapter 13: Little Africa
Chapter 14: The Mission of Wall Street
Chapter 15: The Man Without a Mask
Chapter 16: Waves
Chapter 17: I Can’t Breathe
Chapter 18: Tulsa
Chapter 19: Thelma and Louise
Chapter 20: The Hedgehog and the Fox
Chapter 21: Dark Shadows
Chapter 22: The Rose Garden Cluster
Chapter 23: The Search for Patient Zero
Chapter 24: Survivors
Chapter 25: Surrender

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