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Nightmare scenario : inside the Trump administration's response to the pandemic that changed history / Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta.
Van Pelt Library RA644.C67 A23 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abutaleb, Yasmeen, author.
- Paletta, Damian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trump, Donald, 1946-.
- Trump, Donald.
- COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy--United States.
- COVID-19 (Disease).
- COVID-19 (Disease)--Economic aspects.
- COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects.
- COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Instructional and educational works.
- Physical Description:
- x, 478 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Summary:
- From two reporters for the Washington Post comes an account of the Trump administration's handling, and mishandling, of the coronavirus outbreak, a once-in-a-century pandemic that upended life across the globe that resulted in hundreds of thousands of lives lost, a cratered economy, and the remaking of the U.S. as an unwieldy pariah in the global hierarchy.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Covered in death
- The invisible enemy
- Like water through a net
- Trapped at sea
- Testing, testing
- The panic
- The shutdown
- Dr. Brix
- Dr. Fauci
- Of masks and men
- "Liberate"
- Pharmacist in chief
- Remdesivir
- Jared's shadow task force
- The downfall of the health agencies
- From bad to worse
- The second wave
- Opening day
- Atlas, shrug
- A shot in the dark
- Long live the king
- Judgment day
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-459) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780063066052
- 006306605X
- OCLC:
- 1225066847
- Publisher Number:
- 99987756952
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