Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response

Preventable is a gripping and insightful account of the U.S.

Coronavirus crisis, offering an unflinching investigation into the cultural, political, and economic drivers that led to unnecessary loss of life.

With unparalleled access to key players throughout the government on both sides of the aisle, principal public figures, and frontline workers, Andy Slavitt chronicles the fateful decisions made during this critical time and sheds light on the people at the center of the political system, healthcare system, patients, and caregivers.

This definitive inside account provides a detailed look at how bad leadership, political and cultural fractures, and an unwillingness to sustain sacrifice led to the devastating consequences we faced.

But Preventable is not just a retelling of the past; it also offers solutions for a better, stronger country moving forward.

Written in the tradition of The Big Short, this book continues Andy Slavitt's important work of addressing uncomfortable realities and ensuring that we never find ourselves in this place again.