
53: Michael Lewis on why U.S. COVID response was so…CRAPPY. (My word)
The Al Franken Podcast
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Pandemic Response - Is the United States the Best?
In the middle of two thousand and 19 there's an organization in washington called the nuclear threat initiative. They did a multi year study trying to determine which countries were best and which country were least prepared for a pandemic. And they judged that the united states was number one, that we were going to be the best. It really was like precesing college fitball rakings that everybody thinks that texas or us. are always like all that are going to be good this year. For whatever reason, they then suck.
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