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This powerful report on what went wrong—and right—with America’s Covid response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times
 
Our national leaders have drifted into treating the pandemic as though it were an unavoidable natural catastrophe, repeating a depressing cycle of panic followed by neglect. So a remarkable group of practitioners and scholars from many backgrounds came together determined to discover and learn lessons from this latest world war. 
 
Lessons from the Covid War is plain-spoken and clear sighted. It cuts through the enormous jumble of information to make some sense of it all and answer:  What just happened to us, and why?  And crucially, how, next time, could we do better? Because there will be a next time.
 
The Covid war showed Americans that their wondrous scientific knowledge had run far ahead of their organized ability to apply it in practice. Improvising to fight this war, many Americans displayed ingenuity and dedication. But they struggled with systems that made success difficult and failure easy. 
 
This book shows how Americans can come together, learn hard truths, build on what worked, and prepare for global emergencies to come.
 
A joint effort from:

Danielle Allen • John M. Barry  • John Bridgeland • Michael Callahan • Nicholas A. Christakis  • Doug Criscitello • Charity Dean • Victor Dzau • Gary Edson • Ezekiel Emanuel • Ruth Faden • Baruch Fischhoff • Margaret “Peggy” Hamburg • Melissa Harvey • Richard Hatchett • David Heymann • Kendall Hoyt  • Andrew Kilianski • James Lawler • Alexander J. Lazar • James Le Duc • Marc Lipsitch • Anup Malani • Monique K. Mansoura • Mark McClellan • Carter Mecher • Michael Osterholm • David A. Relman • Robert Rodriguez • Carl Schramm • Emily Silverman • Kristin Urquiza •  Rajeev Venkayya • Philip Zelikow
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16 trillion lost

1.2 million lives lost

trust in U.S. preparedness nearly lost

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“[Lessons from the Covid War] will likely stand as the most authoritative account of American policy failures and successes during the war against Covid-19.”―Peter Bergen, CNN.com

“This is a sobering, realistic assessment, one of the most important to come out of the pandemic. The nation should pay heed to it.”  ―Washington Post editorial board

“Want to buy your elected local, state or federal officials a holiday gift? How about a book called ‘Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report?’ While you’re at it, you might send one to media personalities in your area. They could use information from real experts. And as long as you’re in a giving mood, why not a copy for your covid-denying relatives? It might just cause them to pay some attention to what’s going on in the worlds of science, public health and health care and perhaps save their own lives and those of loved ones now and in the future.”―Bill Berry, Capital Times

“A hard look at widespread failed governance during a global pandemic…An urgent, meticulously documented argument for better preparedness in future crises.”―Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"[L]ucid, sober, probing, at once analytical and engaging. ... It distills a complex welter of events into a clear account without excessive detail and at digestible length. ... The narrative takes a sophisticated approach to lead the reader through how our government, and our health care system, works and, often, doesn't."―Richard Tofel, STAT News

“With copious documentation and in largely nonpartisan fashion, ‘Lessons From the Covid War’ delivers an in-depth, methodical accounting of the Trump and later Biden administration evaluations and approaches to mitigate and defeat the pernicious, intractable virus… Hopefully, national leadership will be up to the task next time. Certainly, ‘Lessons From the Covid War’ and an impartial national COVID-19 commission can help prepare an effective, timely defense.” ―Anthony Sadar for the Washington Times

“Put this on your short list if you want to read a cogent, well-written account of the first years of the pandemic.” ―Dr. Jonathan Samet, Colorado School of Public Health Dean’s Notes

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The Covid Crisis Group combines 34 deeply experienced practitioners and scholars who have worked on every aspect of the Covid war, in America and around the world. They have treated patients in emergency rooms, examined the virus on the lab bench, run public health systems and large agencies, studied infectious disease and epidemiology, developed products in industry, organized programs in nonprofits and government, and given voice to those who have suffered.

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Carl M. Ellison
5.0 out of 5 stars Good study of the human organizational response to COVID
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2023
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I found this book to be enjoyable enough that I finished it in two days. I think it's valuable, not just to public health professionals and politicians but also for the general public. It was especially good for me, as a computer scientist who does not focus on problems of human organization because that was the focus of the book. I needed that perspective.
It was especially good to hear the discussion of the mistakes we made with our delayed recognition of the aerosol and asymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The scientific literature about COVID discussed that in the Spring of 2020. Woodward's interviews with Trump showed that he knew this in early 2020. But the word didn't get out to the public for over a year and by then there was so much confusion in messaging that even today people pay almost no attention to ventilation and still stock hand sanitizer.
I have only two complaints about shortcomings in the book.
The first is that they don't cover the good examples of handling the crisis by Gov. Cuomo in New York and the NY Health Department. I lived through this crisis in NYC and saw the effective daily briefings by the governor. I also saw and still appreciate the PCR testing set up by the NY Health Department, run through the NYC Public Hospitals - which is professional, caring, free and efficient. I get results in less than 24 hours no matter how heavy the demand.
The second is that even after we learned that the virus was spread as an aerosol, we never developed a test for contagiousness. We tested vaccines for effectiveness against symptoms, hospitalization and death -- the things we could measure easily and cheaply in the vaccine trial population -- but when we say that people should get vaccinated so as not to transmit the virus to others, we have no test data to back up that prescription. Does anyone know how to count virus particles in a room's air? Does anyone know how many particles a person has to inhale to become infected? Without such data, we are left with a rule like "don't inhale any air molecules that someone else might have exhaled".
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C. Baker
4.0 out of 5 stars Not Much New Here
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2024
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I appreciate the effort here, and maybe it is because I have read numerous books about the COVID-19 pandemic, but there just isn't anything new here to me. For those who have not read a lot about the pandemic, such as controversy over its origins, the spread , the botched responses across the globe, and the race to vaccine, it is a nice volume with most of the important things to know in it.
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Sylvia Hawley
5.0 out of 5 stars Very important and may even be helpful
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2023
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Clearly the group is an impressive aggregation and the writing is accessible to lay readers with questions.

My take is that one of the reasons it WILL matter and be helpful is that it is a solidly establishmentarian critique. No fringe issues here. And for that reason, I had trouble when I got to the section on lessons learned. I wanted to add one that won't likely pass muster with establishment thinking. I will tell you what I mean.

One thing I felt might have been a helpful lesson learned has to do with medical trust. I assert that our accepted medicine, "western," allopathic, pharmaceutical-centric is one of FIVE actively used medical approaches and I do know people who rely on others as complementary.

There are other approaches -- Naturopathic, Ayurvedic, Homeopathic, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and that is why I say FIVE. There may be others that I do not know about. I do know that, some cranial osteopaths treated covid successfully -- so that makes SIX.

I know people who used these approaches in combination with testing during the two three "covid years" and used these other approaches for prevention as well as to treat. Of the people I have in mind, about one in fifteen used the vaccine. I used the vaccine and was glad to have access to it.

However, all through the process, establishment medicine and media behaved as if there is only one approach and anybody who does not use it must be educated or mandated and this just erases the helpful and valid uses of other medical systems.

These other systems sometimes report tests of their approaches, preventive and or treatment, and other times do not. Very likely most of those tests do not satisfy strict clinical trials approach.

But then, those of us who took the vaccine acknowledged that they were authorized for emergency uses or whatever that language was.

I used "alternative" "complementary" preventive measures and also treatment measures. These are dismissed, debunked, invalidated by the dominant model and its spokespeople.

BUT, how are you going to get everyone on board if you just erase things they believe in.

That's my critique of the critique. I just felt sad, disappointed and sorry that these other approaches to wellness were and are dismissed. They are entirely legitimate as complements.

Says me.
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Jason King
4.0 out of 5 stars Something for almost everyone
Reviewed in Canada on May 18, 2023
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This book demonstrates that many who were criticizing the govt policies around COVID were correct to criticize - disorder, lack of preparedness, competing interests, govt incompetence were all a reality.

What the book also demonstrates is that those claiming “conspiracy” around every corner and govt or “big pharma” purposefully lying to the public or trying to hide “cures” were utterly incorrect. If anything this book demonstrates how uncoordinated things were, and how no group, govt or company knew exactly what to do. Chaos was much more the reality than conspiracy.
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