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 the next outbre...

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Main Author: Gottlieb, Scott (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
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.