ENDEMIC A Post-Pandemic Playbook

In this manual on pandemic management, a professor of infectious diseases describes how containment methods can be used more sparingly, be just as effective, and cause less disruption to people's lives. Gabra Zackman's performance sounds warm, authoritative, and quietly persuasive. The clarity of this scientific writing is helped by her pure timbre, natural-sounding diction, and skill at using strategic pauses to emphasize important phrases. These tasteful pauses give her performance a distinctive personality but never sound overly dramatic. The audiobook is full of practical research findings, such as how more aggressive protective measures--prolonged mask mandates and school closures--caused measurable delays in children's language and social development. She says these costs need to be considered when we respond to the next pandemic. T.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine [Published: DECEMBER 2023]