The Premonition: A Pandemic Story | 誠品線上

預兆: 疫情失控紀事

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內容簡介 國際暢銷書《魔球》、《大賣空》、《橡皮擦計畫》作者麥可．路易士矚目新書！新冠病毒壟罩下全球必讀推薦書！金融時報2021夏日推薦！早在大家發現事情嚴重性之前，這些傳染病專家已嗅出端倪...「麥可‧路易士（Michael Lewis）的《預感》是川普時代的真知灼見... 他的洞見不僅是對於C.D.C，更訴說著政府官僚機構失敗的原因。」—「紐約時報書評」能從字裡行間嗅出端倪的人，會知道中國的新聞審查的可怖。但為什麼美國總統川普能堅稱無需擔心...身為懷疑論者，能在流行病的年代，毫不畏懼地看待最壞的情況。麥可‧路易士緊張而精彩的記實文類，紀錄一群醫學遠見者，在COVID-19 的時代，回應官方的無知並與之抗衡。書中的角色令人著迷又出乎意料，一個 13 歲女孩的科展計畫，有關於空氣傳播的病原體。一位公共衛生官員使用仰視圖，來了解 C.D.C 的疏失，並揭發美國社會的重要真相。 一個綽號為「金剛狼」的異議醫生，他的秘密團隊擁有對抗大規模流行病所需的一切，除了官方對他們工作的許可證。麥可‧路易士稱這些人為英雄。他們拒絕遵循假消息和偽科學指令。 即使連溝通聯繫的網路，也對他們構成了危險。 For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. 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."

作者介紹

作者介紹 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.

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