Four hundred lamps, each representing 100 lives lost to COVID-19 framed the Lincoln Memorial Pool, shortly after President Biden’s inauguration. This observance ends Wright’s look at 2020, the year that the pandemic took hold across the world. An award-winning writer, Wright writes grippingly about the medicine and politics that drove America’s disastrous response to the crisis. Despite the engaging prose, the narrative feels rushed, touching on themes with light strokes. The spread of the virus in prisons gets barely three paragraphs. A commendable achievement for being one of the early ones out of the gate but left me wanting more.
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