Planning for the Wrong Pandemic av Andrew (University of Southern California) Lakoff

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The fractious and disorganized governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States prompted many observers to ask: why was the country¿which had the knowledge, resources, and plans to deal with such an event¿caught so unprepared? Critics pointed to a number of candidates for blame: a President who was dismissive of scientific expertise and indifferent to the task of leading government response; a fragmented media landscape that enabled misinformation to prosper; a slow-footed health bureaucracy incapable of flexible response; and social disparities that heightened inequities in the impact of disease. ¿Planning for the Wrong Pandemic¿takes a different approach. Without dismissing such accounts, it begins with the observation that much of the governmental and expert response to the pandemic had been envisioned and planned for in advance. Moreover, many of these plans were implemented in the early stages of the pandemic. As authorities responded to the crisis, they reli