Laina Einhorn has one of those resumes that's almost hard to believe.

She's a physician, but she's also a bench scientist.

The thing is, she didn't want to stay behind a bench.

My thesis was in biology and tumor biology, but I've been working as a filmmaker and author

for the last decades.

When the lived in the US for a while, she made films for Lifetime Television.

Now she lives in Sweden, where she's won the Swedish National Book Award.

But she still has that scientific habit of asking questions, a lot of questions.

And since the coronavirus pandemic started up, she hasn't been able to stop asking.

When the epidemic in Wuhan started, I was following it, you know, and I noticed that

nothing was happening in Sweden.

So I started making contact with the state epidemiologist of Sweden, asking him, you

know, what's going on?

I, you know, they're warning that there would be a worldwide pandemic and you have to prepare.

You know, I was reading in Atlanta, Southarticle.

What they said, you know, so he said, well, there are a lot of, you know, a lot of projections

from very loose data.

You know, we shall see what happens.

That's what he answered.

It was an email.

This was back in February, about a month before the United States would shut itself down.

Lena but her own government should be doing more earlier.

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