TY - BOOK AU - Slavitt,Andy TI - Preventable: the inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the U.S. Coronavirus response SN - 9781250770165 AV - RA644.C67 S56 2021 U1 - 362.1962/414 23 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - St. Martins Press KW - COVID-19 (Disease) KW - Political aspects KW - United States KW - Government policy KW - COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- KW - Medical policy KW - Coronaviruses KW - COVID-19 KW - Coronaviridae KW - prevention & control KW - Aspect politique KW - �Etats-Unis KW - Politique gouvernementale KW - Pand�emie de COVID-19, 2020- KW - Politique sanitaire KW - Coronavirus KW - fast KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare KW - bisacsh KW - Informational works KW - Political Science / Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare KW - lcgft KW - Documents d'information KW - rvmgf N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-301) and index; 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 N2 - 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 ER -