No we dont get an A grade on this. US failures so far w COVID19 response. Please feel free to add:
1) Delayed roll out of testing capacity
2) Held on to overly stringent case definition that delayed recognition of community transmission
3) Didn't federalize supply distribution e
4) Left too much of response architecture & reopening to states, who took widely different approaches
5) Didn't invoke DPA earlier or enough times to cover all needed supplies
6) Relied too much on tracking sympt cases even after role of asx was clear(not enough contact tracing)
7) Didn't mandate masks even after (or since) widely accepted as a critical tool in mitigation
8) Allowed politicization & downplaying of existence of pandemic by some politicians
9) Major missteps in EUA but also promoting txs w/o enough evidence based on political pressures
10) allowed manipulation of public facing public health documents by political appointees which eroded trust in public health authorities
11) Allowed politicians to state unrealistic vaccine timelines which forced people to let their guard down or get confused, distrustful
12) Pulled out of international collaborations/WHO in the middle of a pandemic, fracturing a unified global approach to pandemic
13) Allowed targeting of scientists and public health leaders
14) Did not take an earlier stronger, proactive approach against misinformation about pandemic by nefarious actors
15) allowed setting up false dichotomy between economic and public health measures, rather than simple true motto of "control cases to open markets"
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