Because folks didn't know what to do, because there was this void, then all the toxic politics flows in.
It's because folks didn't know what to do, because there was kind of a - I mean, even the public health authorities thought they were just going to be closing things for a few weeks.Īnd they had no plan for what to do after that. In fact, we show mainly the story is just the opposite. The - a lot of people think that, gee, everything was so partisan and polarized, that that's why we failed. Then you see, even if 10 million tests are in the warehouse, if you don't have a strategy for what to do with those tests, you're going to fail again. Well, then, for every one of those things, you actually then, OK, how many tests does that need, used in what way, coordinated with the FDA to get the clearances, coordinated with the financing. Do you use the tests for biomedical surveillance? Do you use them to open up 10,000 drive-through centers so anxious citizens can find out if they're sick? Do you use them for point of care testing in nursing homes? Do you use them to help you reopen schools and make workers feel safe? We had no strategy for how to use the tests. Suppose we'd had 10 million tests in warehouses. They weren't produced at scale.īut suppose we'd had enough tests. Everybody's heard the story that maybe that CDC botched the test. Well, we were flying blind all through the pandemic.Įven though we have magnificent electronic health records and hospitals and health care systems, which don't share these records, even with each other in a given city for proprietary reasons and regulatory reasons that are highly fixable, actually, we flew blind unnecessarily.Ĭhina has more gene sequencers at the low go level than we do. Philip Zelikow, Co-Author, "Lessons From the COVID War": Thanks. Phil Zelikow, welcome back to the "NewsHour." He's currently a professor of history at the University of Virginia, and he was executive director of the 9/11 Commission. Philip Zelikow was one of the leads on that.
The report is titled "Lessons From the COVID War: An Investigative Report." One example, it notes that, if the U.S.' death rate was similar to other European nations, in the first two years of the outbreak, and estimated half-a-million Americans wouldn't have died during that period. This new investigative report from a consortium of public health and scientific experts does credit the fast development of the lifesaving vaccines, but it also points to many tragic failures. have better contained the virus in the very early days? Did so many schools and businesses have to close for so long? Why was America's death toll so high? There are still so many questions about America's response to COVID.
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