The Premonition Part One
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Friend of the pod Michael Lewis is back with us this weekend to talk about his recently released book, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story.
The characters you will meet 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.
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| 1:04.1 | Welcome to the Jill On Money podcast. |
| 1:06.7 | It is Saturday, July 24th. |
| 1:10.0 | And we recorded this interview with Michael Lewis a while back. |
| 1:16.2 | It was for the release of his book, which is called The Premonition. |
| 1:22.6 | And it's basically a story about the pandemic. |
| 1:27.0 | And frankly, it is a really interesting dive into some of the old issues that existed at the CDC |
| 1:36.0 | and the United States Healthcare and Public Policy. |
| 1:39.0 | So all of this sort of predates the pandemic, but we get into the pandemic. |
| 1:44.9 | I also want to be clear that this was recorded before a terrible tragedy occurred in Michael Lewis's |
| 1:52.6 | life. His daughter was killed in an automobile accident. |
| 1:56.5 | If you read about that or heard about that, we don't mention it because this was recorded |
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