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A Pandemic Story

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An edition of The Premonition (2021)

The Premonition

A Pandemic Story

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How three groups — a California public health official, an incidental virologist, and a presidential pandemic task force — came together to deal with viral infections, including COVID, and the American public-health system, including the Center for Disease Control.

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W. W. Norton & Company
Pages
304

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Subjects
pandemics, viral infections, public health, the health bureaucracy
Places
Santa Barbara, Atlanta, California
Times
1918, the mid 1970s to the late 2010s

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First Sentence

"Laura Glass was thirteen years old and entering the eighth grade at Jefferson Middle School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when she looked over her father’s shoulder to see what he was working on."

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Missing Americans Page xiii
Part I
Prologue. The Looking Glass Page 3
One. Dragon Page 10
Two. The Making of a Public-Health Officer Page 23
Three. The Pandemic Thinker Page 50
Four. Stopping the Unstoppable Page 78
Five. Clairvoyance Page 112
Part II
Six. The Red Phone Page 135
Seven. The Redneck Epidemiologist Page 160
Eight. In Mann Gulch Page 186
Nine. The L6 Page 209
Part III
Ten. The Bug in the System Page 241
Eleven. Plastic Flowers Page 270
Epilogue. The Sin of Omission Page 297
Acknowledgments Page 303

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Source title: The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

Copyright Date
2021

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Library of Congress
RA644.C67L49 2021

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Format
hardcover
Pagination
xv, 304p
Number of pages
304
Weight
620 grams

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OL32040056M
ISBN 10
0393881555
ISBN 13
9780393881554
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