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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. 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

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Author

Robert O. Schneider

Publisher

Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781440878930

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, Political Science, Health & Fitness