Introduction: The missing Americans -- PART 1. Prologue: The looking glass -- Dragon -- The making of a public-health officer -- The pandemic thinker -- Stopping the unstoppable -- Clairvoyance -- PART 2. The red phone -- The redneck epidemiologist -- In Mann Gulch -- The L6 -- PART 3. The bug in the system -- Plastic flowers -- Epilogue: The sin of omission.
Summary
A narrative of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States follows a band of medical visionaries as they confronted the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19.