She put it all on the line, her reputation, her job. had to do on the ground, your hair stands up on the back of your neck.' Lewis writes about how Dean tried and tried to get the state officials around her to look at the data and act to make sure the virus didn't spread. And when you get into the story of what Charity Dean. 'courage is a muscle memory' or 'the tallest oak in the forest was once just a little nut.' She had all these kind of inspirational things. 'And when I first met her, I realized I had a character because all over her house were like these Post-it notes reminding her to be brave, like. To do her job, she had to be brave in a way that brought tears to my eyes,' Lewis tell NPR. 'No one should have to be as brave as Charity Dean was as a local public health officer. Lewis, also author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side and The Big Short, says a public health doctor in California named Charity Dean is one of the people who saw the real danger of the virus before the rest of the country did. And it is a sweeping indictment of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Much has been written about how the pandemic came to be, but not so well known are the details about how it was able to spread so quickly in the United States.Īuthor Michael Lewis has written a new book, The Premonition, that fills in those blanks.

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis

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