What Went Wrong: America's Covid Response and Lessons for the Future
Autor Gregory E. Penceen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 apr 2025
America's response to Covid cost too many lives, set our children back in their education, and forever damaged our trust in our government's ability to protect and guide us through crises. Conflicting values and strategies received too little ethical consideration as we blindly followed an overly simplified prime directive to stop infections and save lives.
In What Went Wrong, Gregory Pence reveals how the best of intentions resulted in disastrous consequences for our nation. As many as 400,000 non-Covid deaths occurred as a by-product of poor planning and implementation of medical policies. We continue to realize the long-term effects on our nation, including millions of children now being years behind in reading and math. Proportionally, America suffered more deaths during the pandemic than any other developed country.
So where do we go from here? Hindsight on the pandemic shows us how important and complex the ethical implications of public health policy are. Unless we learn from America's failures, the next pandemic could be even worse.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781538199701
ISBN-10: 153819970X
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 146 x 218 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 153819970X
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 146 x 218 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Preface
Chapter 1. The Prime Directive
Chapter 2. Overview of Viruses, Pandemics, and Covid
Chapter 3. Education on Lockdown
Chapter 4. Who Shall Live When Not All Can?
Chapter 5. Philosophical Questions Raised by Pandemics
Chapter 6. Investigating Covid's Origins
Chapter 7. Vaccines and their Ethical Issues
Chapter 8. Truthful Messaging, Testing, and Public Trust
Chapter 9. Censoring False Messages about Covid and Vaccines
Chapter 10. Abandoning the Dying and the Infirms
Chapter 11. Failures of Contact Tracing
Chapter 12. Federal Largesse during Covid
Chapter 13. Failures of International Cooperation
Chapter 14. Rethinking Vaccine Mandates
Chapter 15. Changes Accelerated by Covid
Chapter 16. The Challenge of Long Covid and Disability
Chapter 17. The Mysteries of Good and Bad Covid Leadership
Chapter 18. Why Operation Warp Speed Almost Didn't Happen
Chapter 19. Future Problems and Positives
Chapter 1. The Prime Directive
Chapter 2. Overview of Viruses, Pandemics, and Covid
Chapter 3. Education on Lockdown
Chapter 4. Who Shall Live When Not All Can?
Chapter 5. Philosophical Questions Raised by Pandemics
Chapter 6. Investigating Covid's Origins
Chapter 7. Vaccines and their Ethical Issues
Chapter 8. Truthful Messaging, Testing, and Public Trust
Chapter 9. Censoring False Messages about Covid and Vaccines
Chapter 10. Abandoning the Dying and the Infirms
Chapter 11. Failures of Contact Tracing
Chapter 12. Federal Largesse during Covid
Chapter 13. Failures of International Cooperation
Chapter 14. Rethinking Vaccine Mandates
Chapter 15. Changes Accelerated by Covid
Chapter 16. The Challenge of Long Covid and Disability
Chapter 17. The Mysteries of Good and Bad Covid Leadership
Chapter 18. Why Operation Warp Speed Almost Didn't Happen
Chapter 19. Future Problems and Positives
Recenzii
What Went Wrong takes a long, hard look at how the pandemic was handled in America. As Covid is unlikely to be the last pandemic, this book is a necessary stimulus to think hard about how we can do better next time.
A wonderfully clear, even-handed, and insightful analysis of all the things that went wrong (and the few that went right) in handling the Covid pandemic.
An essential text on the US Covid pandemic response. As a long-standing bioethicist, Pence has a clear-eyed view of how the excessively political Covid response in the US contributed to poorer outcomes in the country. Pence discusses harm reduction as a strategy to manage pandemics, the loss of trust in public health in the US, and ways-?via an honest appraisal and hard look at our response-?to regain that trust. This is a well-referenced and brilliant examination with a profoundly hopeful viewpoint that ethics will win out in future pandemics.
What Went Wrong covers the most controversial aspects of the US handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's clear from reading the book that one of the biggest failures in the US response to COVID-19 was a failure of leadership, from our scientific and public health institutions to the White House. Greg provides an astute and painful reminder of what went wrong during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it is a vital and necessary exercise to prevent it from happening again. Unless we learn from our past, we are destined to repeat it.
A wonderfully clear, even-handed, and insightful analysis of all the things that went wrong (and the few that went right) in handling the Covid pandemic.
An essential text on the US Covid pandemic response. As a long-standing bioethicist, Pence has a clear-eyed view of how the excessively political Covid response in the US contributed to poorer outcomes in the country. Pence discusses harm reduction as a strategy to manage pandemics, the loss of trust in public health in the US, and ways-?via an honest appraisal and hard look at our response-?to regain that trust. This is a well-referenced and brilliant examination with a profoundly hopeful viewpoint that ethics will win out in future pandemics.
What Went Wrong covers the most controversial aspects of the US handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's clear from reading the book that one of the biggest failures in the US response to COVID-19 was a failure of leadership, from our scientific and public health institutions to the White House. Greg provides an astute and painful reminder of what went wrong during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it is a vital and necessary exercise to prevent it from happening again. Unless we learn from our past, we are destined to repeat it.