Government Failures During Coronavirus Pandemic Were Even Worse Than Mainstream Media Types Feel Safe Saying: Book Review of The Big Fail

The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind
by Joseph Nocera and Bethany Lee McLean
Penguin Random House
448 pages
October 2023
This book describes the business aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the problems that resulted in multiple failures, both in the states and worldwide. The authors are working journalists with extensive experience covering business who previously collaborated on an important dissection of the 2008 financial crisis. Both are well-connected with legacy media; Nocera has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.