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.

Author Bio

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.

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