"Captain Trips" is the nickname for the deadly flu depicted in 'The Stand'
24.03.2020 - 18:09 / deadline.com
By Mike Fleming Jr
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film
While President Trump has said that he only wants to give this COVID-19 a couple weeks before the United Stares reopens, check out this Tweet by Stephen King. Even though his monumental pandemic novel The Stand was first published 41 years ago, he offered up an audiobook reading of the chapter where he explains in his folksy fictional fashion how a dangerous virus spreads. It is a chilling listen. I can recall first reading that book while I was
"Captain Trips" is the nickname for the deadly flu depicted in 'The Stand'
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