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Author Slavitt, Andy, author. Author.

Title Preventable : the inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the U.S. Coronavirus response / Andy Slavitt.

Imprint New York : St. Martins Press, 2021.
©2021
Edition First edition.
Descript xvii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Is this really happening? -- Unexploded bombs -- Waking up late -- The virus and the White House, Part I -- The virus and the White House, Part II -- Trump eats the marshmallow -- No one left in charge but the virus -- The room service pandemic -- The folly of the free market pandemic -- Anti-expert, pro-magic -- Deniers, Fauxers, and herders (oh my) -- The work to do -- Afterword: what happened next.
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-301) and index.
Summary The former head of Obamacare presents an inside account of the US's failed response to the Coronavirus pandemic, chronicling what he saw and how much could have been prevented, and investigating the cultural, political and economic drivers that led to unnecessary loss of life.
In the definitive inside account of the United States' failed response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Slavitt chronicles what he saw and how much could have been prevented. The result is an unflinching investigation of the cultural, political, and economic drivers that led to unnecessary loss of life. Readers will be in the room as fateful decisions are made, meeting people at the center of the political system, health care system, patients, and caregivers. The story that emerges is one of a country in which bad leadership, political and cultural fractures, and an unwillingness to sustain sacrifice light a fuse that is difficult to extinguish. -- adapted from jacket
Subject COVID-19 (Disease) -- Political aspects -- United States.
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Government policy -- United States.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Government policy -- United States.
Medical policy -- United States.
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Government policy.
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Political aspects.
Government policy.
Medical policy.
United States.
Political Science / Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare.
COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-)
ISBN 9781250770165 (hardcover)
1250770165 (hardcover)