We thought we were a nation ready for any crisis. Covid showed us how much we have yet to learn.
America's response to Covid cost too many lives, set our children back in their education, and forever damaged our trust in our government's ability to protect and guide us through crises. Conflicting values and strategies received too little ethical consideration as we blindly followed an overly simplified prime directive to stop infections and save lives.
In What Went Wrong, Gregory Pence reveals how the best of intentions resulted in disastrous consequences for our nation. As many as 400,000 non-Covid deaths occurred as a by-product of poor planning and implementation of medical policies. We continue to realize the long-term effects on our nation, including millions of children now being years behind in reading and math. Proportionally, America suffered more deaths during the pandemic than any other developed country.
So where do we go from here? Hindsight on the pandemic shows us how important and complex the ethical implications of public health policy are. Unless we learn from America's failures, the next pandemic could be even worse.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: The Prime Directive
- Chapter 2: A Brief Overview of Viruses, Pandemics, and Covid
- Chapter 3: Education Harms: Lockdowns vs. Focused Protection
- Chapter 4: Who Should Live When Not All Can?
- Chapter 5: Some Philosophical Questions Raised by Pandemics
- Chapter 6: Investigating Covid’s Origins
- Chapter 7: Vaccines and Their Ethical Issues
- Chapter 8: Truthful Messaging, Testing, and Public Trust
- Chapter 9: Censoring False Messages about Covid and Vaccines
- Chapter 10: Abandoning the Dying and the Infirm
- Chapter 11: The Failure of Contact Tracing
- Chapter 12: Federal Largesse during Covid
- Chapter 13: Failures of International Cooperation
- Chapter 14: Rethinking Vaccine Mandates
- Chapter 15: Changes Accelerated by Covid
- Chapter 16: The Challenge of Long Covid and Disability
- Chapter 17: The Mysteries of Good and Bad Covid Leadership
- Chapter 18: Why Operation Warp Speed Almost Didn’t Happen
- Chapter 19: Future Problems and Positives
- Acknowledgments
- Books Cited
- Index
- About the Author
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