Uncontrolled spread : why COVID-19 crushed us and how we can defeat the next pandemic
by Gottlieb, Scott (Author)
Summary
"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... Full description
- 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.