SUMMARY Of: PREVENTABLE by Andy Slavitt: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U. S....
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798528838168
- Pages
- 64
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-06-29
- Author
- Ember SANTINO
Description
Notice to Readers This is not the main book; it is just a summary by Ember Santino. It is not meant to replace the original book. THE RECAP OF THE BOOK Because the people who were required to work and interact with the public were the same people who lacked access to affordable medical care, the United States was set up for negative health care outcomes that would disproportionately hit communities that historically have been left behind. As mentioned in the introduction, nearly 40,000 people traveled to the United States from China without quarantine in the months after the supposed travel ban. And much of the worst of the virus came to the United States not from China but from Europe. Some parts of the world that maintained travel with China, such as Hong Kong, did far better than the United States. New Zealand used a system of color-coding to communicate to the public when and where the virus had spread and greater precautions must be taken. In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's news conferences were a master class in science, providing ongoing education on the virus and on the necessity of public health policies. Within a month of Germany's first case, contact tracing was implemented nationwide and large gatherings and travel were restricted. The political and legal system made enforcing broad federal public health measures tricky; such efforts relied mostly on a 75-year-old law, the Public Health Service Act, and a two-century-old legal precedent, Gibbons v. GET A COPY OF THIS SUMMARY TO KNOW MORE
