Uncontrolled spread why COVID-19 crushed us and how we can defeat the next pandemic
"Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America's COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything? ... [H]e shows how the coronavirus and its variants were able to trounce America's pandemic preparations, and he outlines the steps that must be taken to protect against...
| Main Author: | Gottlieb, Scott (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- America the vulnerable
- Confusion and subterfuge
- Pandemics as national security threats
- The outbreak we didn't want to see
- Looking for spread in the wrong places
- The Zika misadventure
- The CDC fails
- Not enough tests and not enough labs
- Shortage after shortage
- Preparing for the wrong pathogen
- Stay-at-home orders - -A plan gone awry
- The information desert
- Hardened sites
- Evidence is hard to collect in a crisis
- Getting drugs to patients
- The mRNA breakthrough
- A new doctrine for national security.