— Michael Lewisthreat. It is uncanny, like something from a bad science fiction movie . . . [CDC acting director] Rich [Besser] has leaned over and unclipped the leash without knowing whether he was setting free a puppy dog or a tiger. The recklessness of the decision, given the uncertainties, was astonishing, a deep failure, to my mind, of the institution
Replicated under Fair Use from The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis.