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AN UNMITIGATED DISASTER: AMERICAS RESPONSE TO COVID-19

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The world continues to live through the most serious global public health crisis since 1918. Was the United States prepared? How well did our national, state, and local leadership function as the crisis unfolded? 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 exposé of a pandemic year.

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Prologue.
1: COVID-19 Makes &#x201C;It&#x201D; Real.
2: Preparing for a Pandemic: Were We Ready?.
3: Politics, Science, and Partisan Warfare.
4: The End of Wondering: The First Wave Hits the United States.
5: The Great Reopening: Fools Rush in.
6: Failure Persists: The Dark Winter Approaches.
7: The Darkest Days.
Notes.
Index.
About the Author.

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