PENGUIN The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

A chilling account of the 1918 pandemic with a lot of lessons that can be applied to the situation that we find ourselves in today. This is a book that does get very technical but also has some take-home value for every reader. Barry however took over 100 pages to actually get into the pandemic! I would recommend this book as a must-read for those that are betting that the world will be out of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 (think again!). Great historical account also on the founding of John’s Hopkins Medical School, the role of the Rockefeller Medical Institute and how America came to being at the forefront of medical research. It did give me some satisfaction reading a recent WSJ article on how much the book impacted President George W. Bush and how he began to create the systems needed to handle the next pandemic.