What Went Wrong

Gregory E. Pence

doi:10.5771/9781538199725

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-9970-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-9972-5
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 228
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
1. An Alternative: Focused Protection No access
2. The Suppression of Focused Protection No access
3. Focused Protection in America No access
4. Nursing Homes No access
5. 1. Niger No access
  2. China No access
  3. Sweden No access
6. Conclusions No access
7. Notes No access
1. Viral Epidemics before Covid No access
2. Historical Viral Pandemics No access
3. SARS-COV-1 (SARS1) No access
4. The Asian Flu (1957) and Hong Kong Flu (1968) Pandemics No access
5. SARS-COV-2 (SARS2) No access
6. The Clinical Course of Covid No access
7. Notes No access
1. What Have We Done to the Children? No access
2. Conclusions No access
3. Notes No access
1. Social Worth No access
2. Bioethics and Ableism No access
3. Structural Problems No access
4. ECMO No access
5. Seattle ECLS Consortium No access
6. The Selection of ECMO Patients and Their Duration on ECMO No access
7. Ethics Issues about ECMO Needing Further Study No access
8. Other Ethical Issues about ECMO No access
9. Withdrawing versus Foregoing No access
10. Rationing ECMO No access
11. Final Note No access
12. Notes No access
1. Who Is an “Essential Worker”? No access
2. What Is “Contagious”? No access
3. Who Is Most Vulnerable? No access
4. Conclusions No access
5. Notes No access
1. Conclusions No access
2. Notes No access
1. Historical Lapses in Developing Vaccines No access
2. The Risks of Covid Vaccines No access
3. General Ethical Issues of Using New Vaccines No access
4. Who Most Needed Covid Vaccines? No access
5. Conclusions No access
6. Notes No access
1. Messaging Dilemmas No access
2. Messaging, Again No access
3. How Should Good Leaders Discuss Public Health Dangers? No access
4. Conclusions No access
5. Notes No access
1. The Censorship of a Free Press? No access
2. Conclusions No access
3. Notes No access
1. Abandoning the Infirm in Nursing Homes No access
2. Conclusions No access
3. Notes No access
1. Conclusion: The Failure of Contact Tracing in America No access
2. Notes No access
1. Bonanzas for Pharmaceutical Companies No access
2. Conclusions No access
3. Notes No access
1. The Jenner Institute No access
2. The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI) No access
3. Conclusions No access
4. Notes No access
1. Advocates for Vaccine Mandates No access
2. Critique of Vaccine Mandates No access
3. Notes No access
1. Medical Professionals Quit No access
2. Working from Home No access
3. Doing College from Home No access
4. Post-Covid, Unhappy Democracies No access
5. Notes No access
1. Factors Predicting Long Covid No access
2. Prevalence of Long Covid No access
3. Symptoms of Long Covid No access
4. Disability Benefits and Long Covid No access
5. Conclusions No access
6. Notes No access
1. Good Leaders No access
2. Ron DeSantis No access
3. Anthony Fauci No access
4. Image versus Reality in Leadership No access
5. Delving into Trump’s Inner Mind No access
6. Was Anyone a Great Leader during Covid? No access
7. Answering the Master Question No access
8. Notes No access
1. The Official Story No access
2. The Rest of the Story No access
3. Notes No access
1. Positive #1: America’s Soaring Economy No access
2. Problem #1: America’s Inflation and Soaring Debt No access
3. Positive #2: We Know What Works No access
4. Problem #2: New Viruses No access
5. Positive #3: Some Democratic Countries Know How to Lead No access
6. Problem #3: Politicization of Medicine and Science No access
7. Positive #4: mRNA Vaccines No access
8. Problem #4: Broken Trust in Public Health No access
9. Positive #5: Social Epistemology No access
10. Problem #5: Covid May Always Be with Us No access
11. Final Note: Remembering the Pandemic No access
12. Notes No access
Acknowledgments No access Pages 209 - 210
Books Cited No access Pages 211 - 212
Index No access Pages 213 - 226
About the Author No access Pages 227 - 228