The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

Wright's dispatches from inside the first year of the American pandemic are at once immediate and damning. The intelligence failures, the supply chain collapses, the political decisions made in defiance of the science — all documented with the precision of his earlier work on al-Qaeda and Scientology. The toll is in the numbers, but Wright ensures the dead are more than statistics. They are specific people who did not have to die.