If the author assign a title for each chapter, then most of the chapters would have a title like "The influenza was scary, death was everywhere!" The cases the author told us were so redundant because most of them looked the same. Which makes it worse is the numbers of the death in most of the cases were not as scary as the author was trying to told us.

The reason why the author picked those three people to highlight is not clear to me. It seems to me that these three people didn't make huge contributions to understand the influenza. And the story of Lewis is not related to the influenza at all!

The science part is fine, though I wish he could give us more about what we have learnt from this pandemic.