— Michael LewisAs a local health officer, she hadn’t been able to get the tens of thousands of dollars she needed for some new disease-stopping machine. In the private sector, people would throw tens of millions at an idea: if she failed, it wouldn’t be because investors wouldn’t give her the money to try. The Public Health Company, she’d called it.
Replicated under Fair Use from The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis.