{"id":9782,"date":"2020-05-04T05:01:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T12:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=9782"},"modified":"2020-05-04T23:54:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T06:54:46","slug":"she-predicted-the-coronavirus-what-does-she-foresee-next-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=9782","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;She Predicted the Coronavirus. What Does She Foresee Next?&#8221;, The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\">Frank Bruni,\u00a0<\/span>Opinion Columnist, May 3, 2020<\/p>\n<p><em>Laurie Garrett, the prophet of this pandemic, expects years of death and \u201ccollective rage.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">I told Laurie Garrett that she might as well change her name to Cassandra. Everyone is calling her that anyway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">She and I were Zooming \u2014 that\u2019s a verb now, right? \u2014 and she pulled out a 2017 book, \u201cWarnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes.\u201d It notes that Garrett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was prescient not only about the impact of H.I.V. but also about the emergence and global spread of more contagious pathogens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m a double Cassandra,\u201d Garrett said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">She\u2019s also prominently mentioned in <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2020\/03\/why-didnt-the-world-listen-to-the-coronavirus-cassandras\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a recent Vanity Fair article<\/a> by David Ewing Duncan about \u201cthe Coronavirus Cassandras.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Cassandra, of course, was <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greekmythology.com\/Myths\/Mortals\/Cassandra\/cassandra.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the prophetess<\/a> of Greek mythology who was doomed to issue unheeded warnings. What Garrett has been warning most direly about \u2014 in <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lauriegarrett.com\/the-coming-plague\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her 1994 best seller<\/a>, \u201cThe Coming Plague,\u201d and in subsequent books and speeches, including TED Talks \u2014 is a pandemic like the current one.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-bsn42l\"><picture><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-11cwn6f\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/05\/03\/opinion\/03bruniNew\/merlin_172017432_d6faeada-226b-49ac-9263-a24ca066c079-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 80vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/05\/03\/opinion\/03bruniNew\/merlin_172017432_d6faeada-226b-49ac-9263-a24ca066c079-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/05\/03\/opinion\/03bruniNew\/merlin_172017432_d6faeada-226b-49ac-9263-a24ca066c079-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1024w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/05\/03\/opinion\/03bruniNew\/merlin_172017432_d6faeada-226b-49ac-9263-a24ca066c079-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" alt=\"Laurie Garrett cheering essential workers from the roof of her apartment building, joining a citywide ritual every evening in New York.\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><span class=\"css-16f3y1r e13ogyst0\">Laurie Garrett cheering essential workers from the roof of her apartment building, joining a citywide ritual every evening in New York.<\/span><span class=\"emkp2hg2 css-1fxp258 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span>Joshua Bright for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1r07izm\">\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">I told Laurie Garrett that she might as well change her name to Cassandra. Everyone is calling her that anyway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">She and I were Zooming \u2014 that\u2019s a verb now, right? \u2014 and she pulled out a 2017 book, \u201cWarnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes.\u201d It notes that Garrett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was prescient not only about the impact of H.I.V. but also about the emergence and global spread of more contagious pathogens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m a double Cassandra,\u201d Garrett said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">She\u2019s also prominently mentioned in <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2020\/03\/why-didnt-the-world-listen-to-the-coronavirus-cassandras\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a recent Vanity Fair article<\/a> by David Ewing Duncan about \u201cthe Coronavirus Cassandras.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Cassandra, of course, was <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greekmythology.com\/Myths\/Mortals\/Cassandra\/cassandra.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the prophetess<\/a> of Greek mythology who was doomed to issue unheeded warnings. What Garrett has been warning most direly about \u2014 in <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lauriegarrett.com\/the-coming-plague\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her 1994 best seller<\/a>, \u201cThe Coming Plague,\u201d and in subsequent books and speeches, including TED Talks \u2014 is a pandemic like the current one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">She saw it coming. So a big part of what I wanted to ask her about was what she sees coming next. Steady yourself. Her crystal ball is dark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Despite <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-52481897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the stock market\u2019s swoon<\/a> for it, remdesivir probably isn\u2019t our ticket out, she told me. \u201cIt\u2019s not curative,\u201d she said, pointing out that the strongest claims so far are that it <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/29\/health\/gilead-remdesivir-coronavirus.html\">merely shortens the recover<\/a>y of Covid-19 patients. \u201cWe need either a cure or a vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">But she can\u2019t envision that vaccine anytime in the next year, while Covid-19 will remain a crisis much longer than that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019ve been telling everybody that my event horizon is about 36 months, and that\u2019s my <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">best-<\/em>case scenario,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m quite certain that this is going to go in waves,\u201d she added. \u201cIt won\u2019t be a tsunami that comes across America all at once and then retreats all at once. It will be micro-waves that shoot up in Des Moines and then in New Orleans and then in Houston and so on, and it\u2019s going to affect how people think about all kinds of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">They\u2019ll re-evaluate the importance of travel. They\u2019ll reassess their use of mass transit. They\u2019ll revisit the need for face-to-face business meetings. They\u2019ll reappraise having their kids go to college out of state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">So, I asked, is \u201cback to normal,\u201d a phrase that so many people cling to, a fantasy?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is history right in front of us,\u201d Garrett said. \u201cDid we go \u2018back to normal\u2019 after 9\/11? No. We created a whole new normal. We securitized the United States. We turned into an antiterror state. And it affected everything. We couldn\u2019t go into a building without showing ID and walking through a metal detector, and couldn\u2019t get on airplanes the same way ever again. That\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen with this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Not the metal detectors, but a seismic shift in what we expect, in what we endure, in how we adapt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Maybe in political engagement, too, Garrett said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">If America enters the next wave of coronavirus infections \u201cwith the wealthy having gotten somehow wealthier off this pandemic by hedging, by shorting, by doing all the nasty things that they do, and we come out of our rabbit holes and realize, \u2018Oh, my God, it\u2019s not just that everyone I love is unemployed or underemployed and can\u2019t make their maintenance or their mortgage payments or their rent payments, but now all of a sudden those jerks that were flying around in private helicopters are now flying on private personal jets and they own an island that they go to and they don\u2019t care whether or not our streets are safe,\u2019 then I think we could have massive political disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">\u201cJust as we come out of our holes and see what 25 percent unemployment looks like,\u201d she said, \u201cwe may also see what collective rage looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Garrett has been on my radar since the early 1990s, when she worked for Newsday and did some of the best reporting anywhere on AIDS. Her Pulitzer, in 1996, was for coverage of Ebola in Zaire. She has been a fellow at Harvard\u2019s School of Public Health, was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and consulted on the 2011 movie \u201cContagion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Her expertise, in other words, has long been in demand. But not like now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Each morning when she opens her email, \u201cthere\u2019s the Argentina request, Hong Kong request, Taiwan request, South Africa request, Morocco, Turkey,\u201d she told me. \u201cNot to mention all of the American requests.\u201d It made me feel bad about taking more than an hour of her time on Monday. But not so bad that I didn\u2019t cadge another 30 minutes on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">She said she wasn\u2019t surprised that a coronavirus wrought this devastation, that China minimized what was going on or that the response in many places was sloppy and sluggish. She\u2019s Cassandra, after all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">But there is one part of the story she couldn\u2019t have predicted: that the paragon of sloppiness and sluggishness would be the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">\u201cI never imagined that,\u201d she said. \u201cEver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">The highlights \u2014 or, rather, lowlights \u2014 include President Trump\u2019s <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/04\/15\/trump-china-coronavirus-188736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">initial acceptance<\/a> of the assurances by President Xi Jinping of China that all would be well, his scandalous complacency from late January through early March, his <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/25\/us\/coronavirus-trump-chloroquine-hydroxychloroquine.html\">cheerleading for unproven treatments<\/a>, his musings about <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/24\/health\/sunlight-coronavirus-trump.html\">cockamamie ones<\/a>, his abdication of muscular federal guidance for the states and his failure, even now, to sketch out a detailed long-range strategy for containing the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Having long followed Garrett\u2019s work, I can attest that it\u2019s not driven by partisanship. She <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/547b7d26-dbe6-11dc-bc82-0000779fd2ac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">praised George W. Bush<\/a> for fighting H.I.V. in Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">But she called Trump \u201cthe most incompetent, foolhardy buffoon imaginable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">And she\u2019s shocked that America isn\u2019t in a position to lead the global response to this crisis, in part because science and scientists have been so degraded under Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Referring to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and its analogues abroad, she told me: \u201cI\u2019ve heard from every C.D.C. in the world \u2014 the European C.D.C., the African C.D.C., China C.D.C. \u2014 and they say, \u2018Normally our first call is to Atlanta, but we ain\u2019t hearing back.\u2019 There\u2019s nothing going on down there. They\u2019ve gutted that place. They\u2019ve gagged that place. I can\u2019t get calls returned anymore. Nobody down there is feeling like it\u2019s safe to talk. Have you even seen anything important and vital coming out of the C.D.C.?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">The problem, Garrett added, is bigger than Trump and older than his presidency. America has never been sufficiently invested in public health. The riches and renown go mostly to physicians who find new and better ways to treat heart disease, cancer and the like. The big political conversation is about individuals\u2019 access to health care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">But what about the work to keep our air and water safe for <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">everyone<\/em>, to design policies and systems for quickly detecting outbreaks, containing them and protecting entire populations? Where are the rewards for the architects of that?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Garrett recounted her time at Harvard. \u201cThe medical school is all marble, with these grand columns,\u201d she said. \u201cThe school of public health is this funky building, the ugliest possible architecture, with the ceilings falling in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">\u201cThat\u2019s America?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">\u201cThat\u2019s America,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">And what America needs most right now, she said, isn\u2019t this drumbeat of testing, testing, testing, because there will never be enough superfast, super-reliable tests to determine on the spot who can safely enter a crowded workplace or venue, which is the scenario that some people seem to have in mind. America needs good information, from many rigorously designed studies, about the prevalence and deadliness of coronavirus infections in given subsets of people, so that governors and mayors can develop rules for social distancing and reopening that are sensible, sustainable and tailored to the situation at hand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">America needs a federal government that assertively promotes and helps to coordinate that, not one in which experts like Tony Fauci and Deborah Birx tiptoe around a president\u2019s tender ego.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">\u201cI can sit here with you for three hours listing \u2014 boom, boom, boom \u2014 what good leadership would look like and how many more lives would be saved if we followed that path, and it\u2019s just incredibly upsetting.\u201d Garrett said. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m just coming out of maybe three weeks of being in a funk because of the profound disappointment that there\u2019s not a whisper of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Instead of that whisper she hears wailing: the sirens of ambulances carrying coronavirus patients to hospitals near her apartment in Brooklyn Heights, where she has been home alone, in lockdown, since early March. \u201cIf I don\u2019t get hugged soon, I\u2019m going to go bananas,\u201d she told me. \u201cI\u2019m desperate to be hugged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Me, too. Especially after her omens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-jwz2nf etfikam0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">I invite you to sign up for my free <\/em><a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/newsletters\/frank-bruni\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">weekly email newsletter<\/em><\/a><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">. You can follow me on Twitter (<\/em><a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrankBruni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">@FrankBruni<\/em><\/a><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-jwz2nf etfikam0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Listen to <\/em><a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/column\/the-argument\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">\u201cThe Argument\u201d podcast<\/em><\/a><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\"> every Thursday morning, with Ross Douthat, Michelle Goldberg and me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-jwz2nf etfikam0\"><strong class=\"css-1vg6q84\">Correction:<\/strong>\u00a0<time class=\"css-7j4oxu e16638kd0\" datetime=\"2020-05-03T00:00:00-04:00\">May 3, 2020<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"bottom-of-article\">\n<div class=\"css-1ubp8k9\">\n<div class=\"css-acwcvw\">\n<p class=\"css-15hwz5e evys1bk0\">An earlier version of this column described the seer Cassandra incorrectly. She was Trojan, not Greek.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1jp38cr\">\n<div class=\"css-19hdyf3 e1e7j8ap0\">\n<div>\n<p>Frank Bruni has been with The Times since 1995 and held a variety of jobs \u2014 including White House reporter, Rome bureau chief and chief restaurant critic \u2014 before becoming a columnist in 2011. He is the author of three best-selling books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/02\/opinion\/sunday\/coronavirus-prediction-laurie-garrett.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Frank Bruni,\u00a0Opinion Columnist, May 3, 2020 Laurie Garrett, the prophet of this pandemic, expects years of death and \u201ccollective rage.\u201d I told Laurie Garrett that she might as well change her name to Cassandra. Everyone is calling her that anyway. She and I were Zooming \u2014 that\u2019s a verb now, right? \u2014 and she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9782"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9788,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions\/9788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}