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Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2021
Slavitt offers a unique perspective as both an insider and outside observer of America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in this play-by-play historical account of the inside baseball. He shows how the lack of a recent historical frame of reference for pandemic infectious disease and evolving scientific knowledge of the novel virus complicated the nation’s response as the gaps in were filled in by armchair experts, punditry and politics and disseminated by social media to an exasperated population desperate for answers and greater certainty.
