Drawing on surveys, official reports, and news stories from 2019 to the first months of 2022, Stephan sketches a picture of a confused, rapidly politicized response to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States. Notwithstanding some dramatic language and frequent quotes from experts and victims, the narrative makes dry reading. It seems mostly to be a catalog of failures, as the author records then-President Donald Trump’s skeptical early statements, points to racial and political divides in vaccination … Read the rest