Frank Bruni: She predicted the coronavirus. What does she foresee next?

I told Laurie Garrett that she might as well change her name to Cassandra. Everyone is calling her that anyway.She and I were Zooming — that’s a verb now, right? — and she pulled out a 2017 book, “Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes.” It notes that Garrett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was prescient not only about the impact of HIV but also about the emergence and global spread of more contagious pathogens.“I’m a double Cassandra,&r