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An Unmitigated Disaster - America's Response to COVID-19 (Hardcover)
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An Unmitigated Disaster - America's Response to COVID-19 (Hardcover)
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Highlighting American cultural and political contexts, this book
provides an in-depth assessment of the breadth and magnitude of the
United States' errors in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. An
Unmitigated Disaster chronicles and explains the U.S. response to
the COVID-19 pandemic. Emergency management expert Robert O.
Schneider considers the quality of U.S. pandemic planning and
preparedness; the quality and effectiveness of national, state, and
local response efforts; and the performance of national leaders
during this historic public health crisis. The book culminates in
an assessment of how a predictable public health threat became an
unprecedented health, economic, and security disaster. Schneider
convincingly shows that conscious decisions were made by
governmental authorities, beginning with the president, to ignore
expert information and security intelligence in pursuit of other
objectives. In other words, Schneider argues, if the U.S. was
ill-prepared for or slow to respond to the crisis, it was because
its leaders consciously chose to be ill-prepared or slow to
respond. Readers will be fascinated by this behind-the-scenes
expose of a pandemic year. Provides a political analysis and
historical documentation of COVID-19 in real time Includes insights
from the author's expertise in disaster preparedness, mitigation,
and response Demonstrates why the United States stood alone as the
only affluent nation to have suffered severe and sustained
outbreaks for the entire year in 2020 Explains the nature and the
degree of U.S. failure to respond to the pandemic Offers the
definitive answer to the question "Was the United States prepared
for the pandemic?"
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