DESCRIPTION: Join host Andy Revkin in a special Sustain What conversation on President Trump and COVID-19 with Lawrence K. Altman, M.D., the dean of reporting on presidential health and 40-year New York Times veteran, along with Pulitzer Prize winners Deborah Blum and Laurie Garrett.
Altman, currently a Global Fellow at The Wilson Center, is writing a book on the health of presidents and other prominent politicians. He covered health and related issues for The Times for four decades and was the first physician to be a full-time newspaper journalist. There's much more on his career on the Wilson Center site here:
http://j.mp/larryaltman
Laurie Garrett has covered disease outbreaks since before the AIDS epidemic and her first book, "The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance," was a bestseller when released in 1994 and remains in print. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for coverage of the Ebola outbreak in Zaire. Garrett remains a world-leading journalist on the pandemic beat.
http://lauriegarrett.com
Deborah Blum, the director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, is a longtime science journalist and best-selling author who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for her Sacramento Bee series on ethical issues in primate research. She was a professor of Journalism for 18 years at the University of Wisconsin and has written half a dozen books, including the 2010 best-seller "The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York."
http://deborahblum.com
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