Scathing COVID-19 book from Lancet editor — rushed but useful

Scathing COVID-19 book from Lancet editor — rushed but useful

Scathing COVID-19 book from Lancet editor

Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet, has written “a sort of history, diagnosis and prescription” of the COVID-19 pandemic in real time, writes reviewer Stephen Buranyi. Horton’s new book is haunted by the question: how did two of the richest, most powerful and most scientifically advanced countries in the world — the United States and the United Kingdom — get it so wrong, and cause such ongoing pain for their inhabitants?

Nature | 6 min read