Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response Free Audiobook Download by Andy Slavitt
Despite the best efforts of federal and state health officials, the U.S. Coronavirus Response was a complete failure due to the lack of leadership, lack of political will, and selfishness from the Trump administration.
The book, "Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response" by Andy Slavitt is an audiobook that tells the story of how a deadly virus was able to continue to spread in the United States after it's initial outbreak in 2014.
Brad Whitford gives a riveting account of the U.S. vaccine response to the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic, and raises many important questions about what has gone wrong in our world today. Brad Whitford was the Director of Operations at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) during this time, which means he oversaw the response to this unprecedented emergency.
On October 1st of 2016, hundreds of people in the American southwest began contracting a rare and mysterious respiratory illness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not call it an influenza pandemic until the following spring, but when it did, it became a nightmare scenario.
Focusing on a few key individuals and key moments, "Preventable" explains how the leadership failures, politics, and selfishness of a few people doomed the initial U.S. response to the Ebola crisis that began in 2014. The audiobook download is narrated by ['Bradley Whitford'].
The audiobook version of this book, 'Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response,' is available as a free download. This narrative tells the story of how a small group of people (including leadership failures, politics, and selfishness) doomed the United States response to the Zika virus outbreak in Puerto Rico.
Published Date | 2021-06-15 |
Duration | 9 hours 53 minutes |
Author | Andy Slavitt |
Narrated | Bradley Whitford |
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Abridged | No |
Is It Free? | 30-days Free |
Category | Politics |
Parent Category | Public Policy, Social Science, North America |