My first pandemic was one that wasn’t. A mass vaccination effort in 1976 in response to H1N1 “swine” flu at Ft. Dix New Jersey (the strain responsible for the 1918 pandemic) found me, a relatively new arrival to public health (environmental health), helping keep the lines for vaccination orderly - a public health bouncer (of mostly senior citizens). I exceled at my first pandemic response — not so much for the CDC— look it up. Most all of my epidemiological work over the following 35 years was retrospective - trying to statistically determine if it was the chicken or the ham sharing its
GW became very concerned about potential pandemics after reading John Barry's book "The Great Influenza" and there were plans in place, likely overly broad and we certainly were caught pants down with PPE supplies. But the Trump admin dismantled much of the administrative structure and otherwise bungled the whole affair with the exception of vaccine development. The Michael Lewis book Premonition is fantastic in reviewing how some in government were literally working behind the administration's back to solve some of the issues. We seem to have forgotten that COVID has killed more than 1,000,000 Americans
Good review of scathing statistics....which frankly look just like rates of shorter life expectancies, all dark red southern states. And those shorter lives are often people of color who are less educated, less well cared for (the "haves" are white and the "have not's" are black) and have less access to healthcare (which ties to another deplorable fact that red southern states don't expand Medicaid)
GW became very concerned about potential pandemics after reading John Barry's book "The Great Influenza" and there were plans in place, likely overly broad and we certainly were caught pants down with PPE supplies. But the Trump admin dismantled much of the administrative structure and otherwise bungled the whole affair with the exception of vaccine development. The Michael Lewis book Premonition is fantastic in reviewing how some in government were literally working behind the administration's back to solve some of the issues. We seem to have forgotten that COVID has killed more than 1,000,000 Americans
Was there any reason why Trump didn't take advice from former president George W. Bush? If I'm not mistaken, Trump didn't even read it.
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/homeland/pandemic-influenza-implementation.html
Good review of scathing statistics....which frankly look just like rates of shorter life expectancies, all dark red southern states. And those shorter lives are often people of color who are less educated, less well cared for (the "haves" are white and the "have not's" are black) and have less access to healthcare (which ties to another deplorable fact that red southern states don't expand Medicaid)