How to respond better to the next pandemic : remedying institutional failures / Allen Buchanan ; with commentaries by Cécile Fabre, Paul Tucker ; foreword by Mark Matheson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchanan, Allen E., 1948- author.

Contributor:

Fabre, Cécile, writer of added commentary.

Tucker, Paul, writer of added commentary.

Matheson, Mark (Mark Higgs), writer of foreword.

Series:

Tanner lectures on human values (Cambridge, Mass.)

The Tanner lectures on human values

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy--United States.

COVID-19 (Disease).

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Government policy--United States.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Pandemics--Government policy--United States.

Pandemics.

Pandemics--United States--Prevention.

Emergency management--United States.

Emergency management.

COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Government policy.

Pandemics--Government policy.

Pandemics--Prevention.

Physical Description:

viii, 119 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2024]

Summary:

"There is no shortage of criticisms of governments' responses to Covid-19. Surely, we can respond better to the next pandemic. But how? What lessons for the future can we learn from responses to Covid-19? Some elements of adequate preparation for the next pandemic are straightforward and uncontroversial, such as adequate stockpiling of medical supplies, more vigorous efforts to encourage and coordinate vaccine research, improving healthcare infrastructures to function under the stress of a pandemic, developing capacity for vaccine production in less affluent countries, improving early reporting of the emergence of new infectious diseases, and providing more timely, more effective, and better coordinated aid to under-resourced countries. This book identifies institutional failures to explain the substantive flaws of Covid-19 pandemic policies, and then proposes institutional reforms that would reduce the risk that similar institutional failures will occur in the future. Preparation for the next pandemic requires significant institutional change at the national and international levels"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781647691967

1647691966

9781647691691

1647691699

OCLC:

1407096931