Astounding

All this time, I'd thought the CDC was full of wisdom, knowledge, and decisiveness. This book turns that supposition on its head, at the very least. There are so many layers to the fiasco that was the U.S. response to the Covid pandemic that it'll make your head spin. Not that the CDC is evil; I'm certainly not in that camp, but it seems that who we really have to thank for saving us at all during the last few years is a disparate, ragtag, genius little group of docs affectionately nicknamed "the Wolverines". There are so many ways we could have been in even worse shape than we were, had these few been any less brave or brilliant than they were. You'll learn a lot, and some you'll wish you hadn't. In the future, I'll just think of the CDC as a group good at keeping records, and not so much at making meaningful policy.