Steven J. Hatfill
Prescient Pandemic Warning that Predicted COVID.
In 2019, Dr. Steven J. Hatfill decided he'd had enough. Working as an advisor to the Centers for Disease Control, Hatfill and his colleagues discovered that the United States was ill-prepared to handle a pandemic. He'd come from the lab, and one story just would not leave him alone. In 1918, an influenza strain mutated into what became one of the deadliest plagues in recorded human history. To Dr. Hatfill's way of thinking, it was bound to happen again and from what he'd seen of the government's disaster preparedness plans, America was not ready.
He and his colleagues decided to publish a book to sound the alarm. This was a special book, requiring numerous careful medical illustrations to explain complex scientific topics. Three Seconds Until Midnight exposed fatal flaws in America’s pandemic preparedness.
Before the public could even begin to digest the exposé or appreciate the authors' prescience, the world was plunged into the deadliest viral outbreak since 1918.
After COVID-19 struck, based on his demonstrated expertise, Dr. Hatfill was called to serve in the Executive Office of the President. Inside the White House, he fought relentlessly for safe, affordable early treatments and used his expertise to help the President understand and address the virus and the pandemic.
Three Seconds Until Midnight was a day-one bestseller. However, given Dr. Hatfill's commitments at the CDC and the White House, to say nothing of the new world COVID created, Dr. Hatfill was understandably unavailable for marketing pushes.