Bethany McLean on the Pandemic's Big Fail

Bethany McLean, writer for Vanity Fair and coauthor of The Smartest Guys in the Room, discusses the pandemic's failures including unforced errors, lack of preparedness, disparities in per capita deaths, failures of leadership, mishandling of policies, early predictions and warnings, contrasting policies by Cuomo and DeSantis, leadership void and controversies, disparities in COVID-19 outcomes, performance of CDC, NIH, and WHO, role of the Federal Reserve, and the influence of mentors and storytelling.