作者简介

Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

内容简介

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.

Michael Lewis is not shy about calling these people heroes for their refusal to follow directives that they know to be based on misinformation and bad science. Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them. They never know for sure who else might be listening in.


Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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  • 庄常飞
    看过的最差的一本Michael Lewis。里面有些细节挺有趣的(比如Charity的故事、蟒蛇、70年代的CDC等),但整体感觉这本书没有找到narrative flow,而且也不知道自己在说什么,对疫情的分析深度还不如知乎(侮辱!)07-11
  • 小雨真的宅
    在这个崇拜企业家的社会里,人民公仆怕是只能通过建立公司融资来曲线救国了。但公共系统已经失能到如今这个程度,这一策略最终能帮到多少人也是个疑问。这个系统不奖励勇气和果决,即使CDC也曾勇敢果决过,但经历过上一次的打击,敢于出头的人越来越少,或者越来越难让true leaders emerge。报纸上,CDC仍然还是防疫的领导者,但缓慢且混乱的领导时刻在损耗着专家们的信誉 (有真的混乱也有人为制造的混乱)。这个公共系统还能修补吗?这个系统保持原样运作下去会走到大众不需要专家的一天吗?好奇那会是一个什么样的景象。03-27
  • jaime
    书整体架构有点支离破碎的,但是平民英雄的勇敢和智慧还是很让人钦佩的,以及美国科学技术发展的确是领先,基因分析是很厉害,以前对公共卫生无感,现在觉得真是很关键。政府的无能官僚,私营体系既得利益者的贪婪,和非营利组织的无私和无畏形成鲜明对比。02-12
  • Sipinggggg
    劣币驱逐良币,直到大厦崩塌。| 前半部分的人物小传十分精彩,从covid开始作者好像突然不会了,铺垫的线索断的断、残的残,以为是要讲前面的人物如何发挥作用,结果是他们并没有发挥作用,但怎么没发挥作用这件事也没太写好,对结构性问题的分析也很模糊,不敢深挖的感觉。前一半五星,后一半三星。12-22
  • 七爷喊我去铲屎
    写得非常引人入胜,阅读体验很好。在新变中病毒到来的前夕读更有一番感慨。全书在花样diss CDC, 不仅让你怀疑CDC烂成这样怎么还这么大名气, 最后指出原来CDC director自从里根以来由总统任命, 于是自然疫情期间CDC啥都不敢说不敢做。书中有些故事离奇到放到小说里我会觉得作者扯远了,但这就是疫情期间的群龙无首的美国啊。bureaucracy是全球人民的bureaucracy 11-30

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