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“The Premonition by Michael Lewis” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read.Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19.The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected. A thirteen-year-old girl’s science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. A local public-health officer uses her worm’s-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society. A secret team of dissenting doctors, nicknamed the Wolverines, has everything necessary to fight the pandemic: brilliant backgrounds, world-class labs, prior experience with the pandemic scares of bird flu and swine flu…everything, that is, except official permission to implement their work.

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The Premonition is Michael Lewis’ take on the US healthcare system while the Big Short was about the financial system. The parallels are obvious. Both failed at a crucial time.
It paints a tough story about the grasping for profit in the healthcare industry and profit’s importance over any consideration of human life. It also shows the politicization of US life and how the CDC became a political tool that cares about studying but not fighting the disease while stepping aside in any criticism of its political masters. A further step in letting politics rule over reason. In the balance of lives vs economy, the US the system put almost all its weight on the economy as bodies stacked waiting for burial. The US healthcare system is very decentralized (vs other G7 countries) and this made it unmanageable as the weak national leadership deferred to states, states to counties and so on. The strength of the decentralized system, like a chain, was only as strong as the many weak links at all levels. And there were many. Lewis said leadership was akin to a teacher telling Grade 6s that the homework and tests were optional.