Just finished reading "The Premonition: A Pandemic Story" by Michael Lewis, and it's probably the best book on epidemiology I've ever read. (And I've read many.) It's not partisan - Trump and Fauci are barely mentioned, and Birx isn't mentioned at all. The book deep-dives into all the reasons the CDC became a failure (though with very good PR) since 1976, how public health offices ended up defunded to the point where they couldn't even afford fax machines, etc.


Along the way, he describes several larger-than-life people like a rogue public health officer, or a redneck epidemiologist, or a Californian genius with his own gene lab. Absolutely fascinating reading: it'll leave you very pissed off, but also way more educated.