Publisher Description
A few months before the virus slammed the world, global public health experts declared the United States the most prepared for a possible pandemic. Instead, we watched as the disease killed half a million Americans. A stunned nation has been too busy grieving and doing damage control to ask why, or to comprehend just how much of the blundering and chaos of the pandemic response was either deliberate or entirely predictable. New York Times bestselling author Nina Burleigh weaves together the key narrative strands to create an uncompromising and highly informed exposé about our shared global pandemic experience and what it means for our future. Here listeners will learn:
● How the Trump administration packed public health agencies with right wing Christians and their political allies who cared more about gender norms and policing morality than a possible pandemic.
● How America's anti-expertise culture, long nurtured by right wing media and conservative politicians, and now at its apogee, has left countless millions of Americans doubting the efficacy and safety of vaccines.
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About Nina Burleigh
Nina Burleigh is an award-winning journalist and the author of a number of books, including the New York Times bestseller The Fatal Gift of Beauty and Mirage: Napoleon’s Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and won the Society of Women Educators’ Award. Burleigh has been a staff writer at Time and People and currently covers national politics at Newsweek. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Huffington Post as well as in Time, the New Yorker, Elle, and many other journals. She has resided in France, Italy, and the Middle East and now lives in New York.