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Business Daily: Pandemic preparedness

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18/05/2021 GMT

Pandemic preparedness

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Pandemic preparedness

Michael Lewis on how America’s health system got the Covid pandemic all wrong

Michael Lewis on how America’s health system got the Covid pandemic all wrong.

When it comes to pandemic preparedness the United States was once one of the world’s best prepared countries. Today it has one of the world’s worst Covid mortality rates. So what went wrong? The financial journalist and writer Michael Lewis of The Big Short fame, has investigated and has published a book called The Premonition. It’s a real life, deep-dive account of how American public health officials warned about the impending Covid pandemic but were ignored by US authorities. (Picture credit: Getty Images)

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