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Author Slavitt, Andy, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : St. Martins Press, 2021.
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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  614.592 SLAVITT    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  362.1962 SLA    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  362.196 SLAVITT    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  362.1962 SLAVITT    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  362.1962 SLA    Assumed Lost
 Southington Library - Adult  614.5294 SLA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  614.5924 SLAVITT    Check Shelf
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 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  614.592414 SL    Check Shelf
Edition First Edition.
Description xvii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-301) and index.
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.
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. (DNLM)D000086382
Coronaviridae. (DNLM)D003332
COVID-19 -- prevention & control. (DNLM)D000086382Q000517
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst02021820
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst02021838
Government policy. (OCoLC)fst01353198
Medical policy. (OCoLC)fst01014505
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-) (OCoLC)fst02024716
ISBN 9781250770165 (hardcover)
1250770165 (hardcover)
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