Virus, Nina Burleigh
Virus, Nina Burleigh
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Virus
Vaccinations, the CDC, and the Hijacking of America's Response to the Pandemic

Author: Nina Burleigh

Narrator: Nina Burleigh

Unabridged: 6 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/27/2021

Synopsis

A few months before the virus slammed the world, global public health experts declared the United States the most prepared for a possible pandemic. Instead, we watched as the disease killed half a million Americans. A stunned nation has been too busy grieving and doing damage control to ask why, or to comprehend just how much of the blundering and chaos of the pandemic response was either deliberate or entirely predictable. New York Times bestselling author Nina Burleigh weaves together the key narrative strands to create an uncompromising and highly informed exposé about our shared global pandemic experience and what it means for our future. Here listeners will learn:

● How the Trump administration packed public health agencies with right wing Christians and their political allies who cared more about gender norms and policing morality than a possible pandemic.

● How America's anti-expertise culture, long nurtured by right wing media and conservative politicians, and now at its apogee, has left countless millions of Americans doubting the efficacy and safety of vaccines.

About Nina Burleigh

Nina Burleigh is a reporter and author of six books, including The Trump Women: Part of the Deal and the New York Times bestseller The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Italian Trials of Amanda Knox. She most recently covered America under Donald Trump as national politics correspondent at Newsweek. She got her start in journalism covering the Illinois Statehouse in Springfield, Illinois, and is a fellow of the Explorers Club who has covered stories on six continents.

Burleigh's writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, Time, New York, the New York Times Magazine, Slate, and Bustle. She has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher, Good Morning America, Nightline, The Today Show, 48 Hours, on MSNBC, CNN and C-Span, NPR, in numerous documentaries, podcasts, and radio programs. A former judge for the J. Anthony Lukas prize for nonfiction, Burleigh is an adjunct professor at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Her work has been cited in hundreds of scholarly articles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shanna Tidwell

First the narration was exceptional! The story was good & easy to follow. I loved the story and how things are playing out. The entire concept is new & original. I love it when an author can give you something original & make it good. I'm ready for the next installment! I was voluntarily provided th......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie

Kindle Unlimited {got this as freebie day for the 2 pack a month of so ago, listing both stories so you can see why need both} Virus -72 Hours to Live A suspicious virus that no one can explain hits Earth. The President of the United States Arnold Patterson and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs face th......more

Goodreads review by Beverly

This book was interesting in a lot of ways. I especially liked how the author based a lot of the book on a space station/Mars/the Moon. Most books that involve an apocalyptic situation never delve into what might happen to those who aren't on Earth when an apocalypse happens. I also enjoyed the evolv......more

Goodreads review by George

This was... One of those books. It took me a bit to get into it, and it jumps back and forth between perspectives and places so much that for probably the first quarter I honestly wasn't sure how I felt about it. I never disliked it, I just wasn't sure. By about the halfway point though, I was thoro......more

Goodreads review by Wayne

This story has a lot of potential. There is a mysterious virus which no one understands, and we see the story of people in different places who try to cope with it. There is a computer who becomes self-aware and eventually tries to help. There is another self-aware computer which seems to be working......more

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