• COVID-19

  • The Greatest Cover-up in History - from Wuhan to the White House
  • By: Dylan Howard, Dominic Utton
  • Narrated by: Tim Getman
  • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (26 ratings)

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COVID-19

By: Dylan Howard,Dominic Utton
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In the final days of 2019, a new and deadly virus was quietly spreading through the city of Wuhan, China. Within six months it would kill half a million people worldwide, infect a further 10 million, and change the way all of us live, work, and play forever.

Now, for the first time, the real story of the greatest global crisis of the age can be told.

Reporters Dylan Howard and Dominic Utton, collaborating from New York and London - infection hotspots in what would become two of the worst-hit nations on Earth - have together mapped the rise, spread, and impact of the virus...and uncovered some explosive revelations.

COVID-19: The Greatest Cover-up in History - from Wuhan to the White House delivers the unfettered truth about what is undoubtedly the biggest political scandal of our time. It shows in unprecedented detail how governments in China, the UK, and the US not only failed to protect their citizens from the threat of the disease but actively conspired to put their own political and economic ideologies above the lives of ordinary people.

From early attempts by Beijing to silence any reports of the new virus to the inability of the WHO to act decisively; from warnings received and ignored by President Trump to decisions taken by the UK government that directly led to the loss of tens of thousands of lives; from whispers of military experiments to outlandish 5G conspiracy theories, Howard and Utton separate fact from fiction, science from hysteria, and expose a trail of dead bodies, willful mismanagement, incompetence, arrogance, deliberate cover-ups, and outrageous lies that raise serious questions about who is really responsible for the hundreds of thousands killed by COVID-19.

Through vigorous investigations, dedicated reporting, and exclusive first-person sourcing, COVID-19 unearths a more complex understanding of the rise, spread, and consequences of the first six months of the pandemic than has yet been seen and exposes shocking revelations about the roles and motivations of the American and British governments in the crisis.

The true story of COVID-19 is not just that of a silent killer that suddenly invaded the world...it’s the scandal of a global tragedy that could have - and should have - been prevented.

©2020 Dylan Howard and Dominic Utton (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
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I find it a very one-sided and biased journalism.

This book gives an overall impression of a commission-based manifesto, rather than honest approach to investigate and present various aspects of this complicated pandemic. I find the (mis)use of statistics especially appalling. Authors quote absolute numbers in some cases, and per capita in others - depending on which narrative suites their line of argumentation. Many facts and characters are completely omitted, and emotional attacks on other events and figures are comically emphasized by the narrator.

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meh

meh it was informative but the author here seems to be more on the anti trump side.

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More political than scientific

The more I listened to this book, the more I disliked it's content. I endured to the end, but was happy when it was over. I can understand that at the time of this writing, we still knew very little about C19. However, throwing all of the politicians under the bus because of decisions made, was only indicative of how little we knew about COVID. I suppose it would have also made for a very short book!

We know today that the tests being used, indicated that many had COVID, when in fact they had colds, sinuses, the flu, or other flu-like symptoms. Many deaths attributed to COVID-19 were in fact due to co-morbitities, or a completely unrelated cause, but because they were tested, and positive with COVID, were listed as COVID deaths. We may never know the true origin of the disease, but the fact that the government was allowed to take away some of our liberties by using lockdowns, will have a future effect on the world and it's citizen's.

I hope the authors of this book write a sequal. Hopefully it will be written without political motives and will be a truthful representation of the facts.

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Can I get a Refund!

The authors are so anti Trump!
Some good info, but I think they are being paid for by the Democrats!

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Not what I thought it was going to be.

This book isn't neutral, seemed like it just bashed one side and didn't actually tell us anything we didn't already know.

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One sided

What a waste of my time!! Not at all scientific or factual. Author hopefully can redeem themselves by writing a sequel considering the truth that has been revealed.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 10-05-21

Terrible book

You can't stop a virus with lockdowns. This book is very pro lockdowns and anti Donald Trump. It becomes hard to listen to. The author makes no mention of Biden's pro Chinese stance. He praises lockdowns as the answer, I live in a country of lockdowns. Cases climbing and rioting everyday. Losing our freedom is the real issue here. Suicide rates (people under 40) offset those who would have died from COVID (over 60).

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  • Paul N
  • 11-01-21

Not much information apart from bashing Trump and Boris Johnson

The book starts interesting but later becoming no more than a piece of left wing voice with a large proportion of bashing Trump and Boris Johnson. Not a good analytical writing of Covid-19. There are much better books out there.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 11-24-21

Disappointed. Started off alright, then.........

Starting the book off I really believed the writer was going to take a journalistic approach. Give the facts known in a broad spectrum. Instead he decided to turn it into a left wing hate speech again Trump and Boris Johnson.
He praises all countries that shut down there people, in a narrow minded view saying that lockdowns are essentially the only way out of this.
He does not take into account any of the mental and physical implications of this.
I'm truly disappointed with this. Just Left wing trash with a few facts sprinkled in to entice readers to his point of view. For shame, as a journalist (or journalistic styled book) it should be your obligation to report all facts, not manipulate a small amount of facts to put your point across.

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  • Kindle Customer
  • 07-01-21

Eye opening

This is a fantastic book to read for a worldwide view of the response to COVID-19 and the unimaginable actions taken by some world leaders. It is especially important for those living in areas such as Australia and New Zealand who are somewhat isolated to what has happened. This book skilfully written and powerfully delivered. It provides a scary look into the fragility of human society and the unpredictable nature of a virus.

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  • 11-22-21

good facts

it was ok but just really going over the facts that we already knew .. good though to have a summary. because so much more has happened since it seems a little out of date. for instance now in nz a large portion of people are protesting at jacinda forcing mandated vaccines for certain jobs .. not as compassionate anymore. maybe in another year this book could be updated to reveal a bigger and more worrying outcome of this pandemic with governments turning into dictators all over the world...

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  • Fiona Gregory
  • 11-17-21

Remind Yourself of the Facts

This book focuses on the first 6 months of the Covid19 pandemic. There are direct quotes from the WHO and also leaders and advisors from countries who saw exponential growth within a few short weeks.

It’s a great reminder of how much incompetence and delay affected nations such as China, England, Brazil and the USA. But also deliberate manipulation of facts to the detriment of their citizens.

I wish it were fiction - but it’s not. And it cost lives.

It’d be great to have a follow up volume that also covers the emergence of the Delta strain, the continued fight against infections and also the push to vaccinate people in 2021.

We are no way near out of this pandemic. And, even with a vaccine, we repeat the same mistakes to our own peril.

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  • Rob
  • 08-17-21

Fascinating

We constructed and researched book. It sheds an interesting spotlight on the competency or lack thereof of our leaders and their quest to retain power and the means by which they do it. Unfortunately at the expense of their citizens.

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  • Kerri J Robb
  • 12-08-21

Nothing new

I was looking forward to a summary of the sequence of events in the first six months of the pandemic and that was delivered to a point until it became a summary of all of Donald Trump's errors and motives.

Keeping in mind this was written in June 2020 (and I'm reading in December 2021), the authors might follow up with subsequent events including a review of Chapter 9 using Sharri Markson's "What Really Happened In Wuhan" (no longer available on Audible.com.au) which investigates in tremendous detail, the source of the virus (or just stick with the conspiracy theory rhetoric). They might also like to follow up on the public sentiment of the countries mentioned after 18 months of lockdowns and lockouts.

Oh and a Prime Minister is not a Head of State, Queen Elizabeth II is the Head of State of New Zealand.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 12-04-21

nothing objective

Starts okay but then all objectivity is lost. Just more Trump hating. What has happened to journalistic integrity???

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  • Anonymous User
  • 12-13-21

Not worth the paper it’s written on

Terrible. Never have I read such bias. Complete misinformation. No backed up evidence of what they propose happened and then followed by bashing of politicians. Very disappointed. No real journalism, just an agenda to be pushed.. surprise surprise.

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