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The American Tragedy of COVID-19

Author : Naomi Zack
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538151200
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The American Tragedy of COVID-19 written by Naomi Zack and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is a classic tragedy of destruction following errors in judgment. Naomi Zack presents social and political aspects of this disaster as it unfolded in public health through federal and local government structures, society, culture, and the economy. Federalism combined with politics in facing and denying the SARS-CoV2 pandemic has revealed both weaknesses and strengths. Preparation was woefully inadequate for the 2020 tidal wave of COVID-19 that broke over the medical system, the educational system, the lives of the poor, essential workers, racial and ethnic minorities, the elderly, and women, especially. Rhetoric and conspiracy theories flourished, as Red and Blue Americans politicized the pandemic. Police reform became urgent after billions witnessed George Floyd’s death. The war of the statues evoked new conflicts over free speech. The X-ray nature of COVID-19 has revealed the United States to itself, in character, incompetence, superstition, and injustice, but also in dedication to caring for others and abiding resilience. The core of democracy held after the 2020 election but vigilance is newly important and required. As a record of this US Plague Year and an argument for why we need to prepare for Climate Change, as well as the next pandemic, this book is an essential resource for every student, scholar, and citizen.

The Fault in Our SARS

Author : Rob Wallace
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583679952
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book The Fault in Our SARS written by Rob Wallace and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposes the pragmatic changes we must make to survive COVID and the worst of the new diseases on the horizon The Trump administration’s neglect and incompetence helped put half-a-million Americans in the ground, dead from COVID-19. Joe Biden was elected president in part on the promise of setting us on a science-driven course correction, but, a little more than a year later, another half-a-million Americans were killed by the virus. What happened? In The Fault in Our SARS, evolutionary epidemiologist Rob Wallace catalogs the Biden administration's failures in controlling the outbreak. He also shows that, beyond matters of specific political persona or party, it was a decades-long structural decline associated with putting profits ahead of people that gutted U.S. public health. COVID-19 isn’t just an American tragedy. Each in its own way, countries around the world following the "profit-first" model failed their people. Global vaccination campaigns were bottled up by efforts to protect pharmaceutical companies' intellectual property rights. Economies were treated as somehow more real than the people and ecologies upon which they depend. Frustrated populations pushed back against lockdowns, abuses of governmental trust, and, fair or not, the very concept of public health. A social rot meanwhile wended its way into the heart of the sciences that, tasked with controlling disease, serve the systems that helped bring about COVID-19 in the first place. In The Fault in Our SARS, Wallace and an array of invited contributors aim to strip down the capitalist social psychology that in effect protected the SARS virus. The team proposes instead new approaches in health and ecology that appeal both to humanity's highest ideals and the pragmatic changes we must make to survive COVID and the worst of the new diseases on the horizon.

Americorona

Author : Philip C. Kolin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666733075
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Americorona written by Philip C. Kolin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Americorona track the history of COVID-19 in the US from late 2019 to early 2021—how the pandemic affects America medically, economically, spiritually, and psychologically. There are three types of poems in seven sections in Americorona. Leading each section are poems about other historical pandemics (cholera, Black Death, polio, Irish Potato Famine, Pharaoh’s plagues, etc.) that foreshadow or parallel the tragic events ushered in by COVID-19. The majority of poems, however, are about COVID-19 tragedies—how the pandemic started, how it impacts children and minorities, how it resulted in hunger and increased discrimination, how it brings out naysayers, how the medical community is dealing with the pandemic. Interspersed among COVID-19 and historical poems are experimental ones on such topics as the “memory of breathing” or the “exhaustion of monotony” during the pandemic.

American Crisis

Author : Andrew Cuomo
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 059323927X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book American Crisis written by Andrew Cuomo and published by Crown. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Governor Andrew Cuomo tells the riveting story of how he took charge in the fight against COVID-19 as New York became the epicenter of the pandemic, offering hard-won lessons in leadership and his vision for the path forward. “An impressive road map to dealing with a crisis as serious as any we have faced.”—The Washington Post When COVID-19 besieged the United States, New York State emerged as the global “ground zero” for a deadly contagion that threatened the lives and livelihoods of millions. Quickly, Governor Andrew Cuomo provided the leadership to address the threat, becoming the standard-bearer of the organized response the country desperately needed. With infection rates spiking and more people dying every day, the systems and functions necessary to combat the pandemic in New York—and America—did not exist. So Cuomo undertook the impossible. He unified people to rise to the challenge and was relentless in his pursuit of scientific facts and data. He quelled fear while implementing an extraordinary plan for flattening the curve of infection. He and his team worked day and night to protect the people of New York, despite roadblocks presented by a president incapable of leadership and addicted to transactional politics. Taking readers beyond the candid daily briefings that became must-see TV across the globe, and providing a dramatic, day-by-day account of the catastrophe as it unfolded, American Crisis presents the intimate and inspiring thoughts of a leader at an unprecedented historical moment. In his own voice, Andrew Cuomo chronicles the ingenuity and sacrifice required of so many to fight the pandemic, sharing the decision-making that shaped his policy as well as his frank accounting and assessment of his interactions with the federal government, the White House, and other state and local political and health officials. Real leadership, he shows, requires clear communication, compassion for others, and a commitment to truth-telling—no matter how frightening the facts may be. Including a game plan for what we as individuals—and as a nation—need to do to protect ourselves against this disaster and those to come, American Crisis is a remarkable portrait of selfless leadership and a gritty story of difficult choices that points the way to a safer future for all of us.

Voices from the Pandemic

Author : Eli Saslow
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 038554703X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Pandemic written by Eli Saslow and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter, a powerful and cathartic portrait of a country grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic—from feeling afraid and overwhelmed to extraordinary resilient—told through voices of people from all across America The Covid-19 pandemic was a world-shattering event, affecting everyone in the nation. From its first ominous stirrings, renowned journalist Eli Saslow began interviewing a cross-section of Americans, capturing their experiences in real time: An exhausted and anguished EMT risking his life in New York City; a grocery store owner feeding his neighborhood for free in locked-down New Orleans; an overwhelmed coroner in Georgia; a Maryland restaurateur forced to close his family business after forty-six years; an Arizona teacher wrestling with her fears and her obligations to her students; rural citizens adamant that the whole thing is a hoax, and retail workers attacked for asking people to wear masks; patients struggling to breathe and doctors desperately trying to save them. Through Saslow's masterful, empathetic interviewing, we are given a kaleidoscopic picture of a people dealing with the unimaginable. These deeply personal accounts make for cathartic reading, as we see Americans at their worst, and at their resilient best.

Covid -19

Author : Jorge O Mariscal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Covid -19 written by Jorge O Mariscal and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has been presented with a false dilemma: either to accept a very large number of deaths due to the Covid-19 pandemic, or a deep economic recession almost without precedent resulting from general lockdowns. In this book we show that for most countries there were more effective, and less costly responses to the crisis than the ones chosen. According to our approximate estimates, had the world followed these policies eight out of every ten deaths could have been saved, and the economic cost of the pandemic could have been around one fourth lower. Based on these lessons, we derive specific policies that can, and should be implemented today and in the future.Carlos Obregon has a Ph.D. in economics from Colorado University. He was invited as a postdoctoral fellow by Harvard University and was a visiting scholar at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a well known expert in global finance, and is the author of twenty-six books and many professional articles.Jorge O. Mariscal has a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. He is an Adjunct Professor at The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University, in New York. He is the former Chief Investment Officer for Emerging Markets at UBS Wealth Management. Previously, he was a Partner and Chief Investment Strategist at the Rohatyn Group, and Managing Director in the Investment Research department at Goldman Sachs in New York.

Diary of an American Covid-19 Era Survivor

Author : Gail Galvan
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Diary of an American Covid-19 Era Survivor written by Gail Galvan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This diary picks up where the author's latest book, Problematic President: Dangerous Dictators left off. That book ended not knowing who would be the next President of the United States. This personal daily account includes Covid-19 fears and updates along with keeping tabs on what leads up to the contentious presidential election of 2021, by counting down the final fifty days (plus). Great sadness fills the author's heart every day due to the thousands and thousands lost due to the coronavirus. Though not as politically charged, here, the author just tries to reveal a day by day existence in a changed, scarier, more health-dangerous world. Yet breaking news is brought to light at times as Presidential election history is made. And when tragedy strikes at the Capitol, the story continues. Note that all profits from this book will be donated to help with food insecurity.

Covid-19

Author : Janice M Barlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781664236547
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Covid-19 written by Janice M Barlow and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COVID-19: An America Changed looks back at the virus that transformed the world. Janice M. Barlow zeroes in on the day-to-day impact the virus has had on society, including debates about our response to the pandemic. She argues that some of the sticking points are old issues with new names, while others are new-especially for most of us who have never lived through a pandemic. Drawing on interviews of ill individuals, as well as data from news reports, the author paints a detailed picture of how mandates were enforced, testing was conducted, and information (and misinformation) was circulated. She also shares her own experience of getting sick in early 2020 and not being sure of its cause. For weeks, she was exhausted and miserable. While God is not the focus of this monograph, it poses an important question that should be top of mind: Where will your heart be when you meet God on the other side?

When the Virus Came Calling

Author : Thelma T. Reyna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996963275
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book When the Virus Came Calling written by Thelma T. Reyna and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking anthology of over 35 distinguished American contemporary poets and prose writers, written in real time in the first seven months of the historic, evastating coronavirus COVID-19 invasion of America in 2020. In heart-wrenching, wide-eyed observations, firsthand events, tragedies, and reflections, these 44 top authors from 10 states across America document for us the horrors, grief, and heroism of friends, family, neighbors as we watched the disease unfold. Here are moments of hope and togetherness as well, seeking respite and balms. This gathering of Poets Laureate, national award winners, poet leaders,essayists, academics, and short fiction writers is a collection to treasure and a touchstone for generationsto come.

Pandemic Politics

Author : Shana Kushner Gadarian
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069121901X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Pandemic Politics written by Shana Kushner Gadarian and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the politicization of the pandemic endangers our lives—and our democracy COVID-19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in American history, but the scale and grim human toll of the pandemic were not inevitable. Pandemic Politics examines how Donald Trump politicized COVID-19, shedding new light on how his administration tied the pandemic to the president’s political fate in an election year and chose partisanship over public health, with disastrous consequences for all of us. Health is not an inherently polarizing issue, but the Trump administration’s partisan response to COVID-19 led ordinary citizens to prioritize what was good for their “team” rather than what was good for their country. Democrats, in turn, viewed the crisis as evidence of Trump’s indifference to public well-being. At a time when solidarity and bipartisan unity were sorely needed, Americans came to see the pandemic in partisan terms, adopting behaviors and attitudes that continue to divide us today. This book draws on a wealth of new data on public opinion to show how pandemic politics has touched all aspects of our lives—from the economy to race and immigration—and puts America’s COVID-19 response in global perspective. An in-depth account of a uniquely American tragedy, Pandemic Politics reveals how the politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic has profound and troubling implications for public health and the future of democracy itself.

The Plague Year

Author : Lawrence Wright
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141998148
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Plague Year written by Lawrence Wright and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth' New York Times Book Review 'A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives' The Observer Just as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so The Plague Year will become the defining account of the second. The story starts with the initial moments of Covid's appearance in Wuhan and ends with Joseph Biden's inauguration in an America ravaged by well over 400,000 deaths - a mortality already some ten times worse than US combat deaths in the entire Vietnam War. This is an anguished, furious memorial to a year in which all of America's great strengths - its scientific knowledge, its great civic and intellectual institutions, its spirit of voluntarism and community - were brought low, not by a terrifying new illness alone, but by political incompetence and cynicism on a scale for which there has been no precedent. With insight, sympathy, clarity and rage, The Plague Year allows the reader to see the unfolding of this great tragedy, talking with individuals on the front line, bringing together many moving and surprising stories and painting a devastating picture of a country literally and fatally misled. 'Maddening and sobering - as comprehensive an account of the first year of the pandemic as we've yet seen' Kirkus

After Life

Author : Rhae Lynn Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781642598292
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book After Life written by Rhae Lynn Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during global the COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election. Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the editors asked twenty-first-century historians and legal experts to focus on the parallels, convergences, and differences between the exceptional "long 2020" while it unfolds and earlier eras in U.S. History. Providing context for the entire volume, After Life's Introduction explains how COVID-19, America's long history of inequality, combined with a corrupt and unconcerned federal government, produced one of the darkest times in our nation's history. The COVID-19 death toll in the United States rose higher than the 1918 flu, the AIDS epidemic, and the Civil War. It ties public health, immigration, white supremacy, elections history, and epidemics together, and provides a short history on the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 and the beginnings of a Third Reconstruction. After Life documents how Americans have dealt with grief, pain, and loss, both individually and communally, and how we endure and thrive. The title is an affirmation that even in our suspended half-living during lockdowns and quarantines, we are a nation of survivors - with an unprecedented chance to rebuild society in a more equitable way.

American Crisis - Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic

Author : Kevin Lee Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908424334
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book American Crisis - Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic written by Kevin Lee Smith and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is my story of what happened. About what happened in the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic. But more specifically, why thousands of people died needlessly in New York. This book is a result of thousands of hours of researching, investigating, reading, reinvestigating, analysing, structuring, re-reading, understanding, and generally having a good long hard think about it. No expense has been spared. All avenues have been pursued. From the well balanced and rational coverage of Fox News (particular thanks to Greg Gutfeld and his unicorn mug - a constant source of inspiration) to the utterly biased and fake news from the basket of deplorables at CNN. The reader can be assured that every single one of the 512 pages is as important as all others, in getting to the bottom of why so many people died needlessly, in the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic in New York.

Covid-19 and the Transformation of American Society

Author : JOSE MARTINEZ
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781680539219
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Covid-19 and the Transformation of American Society written by JOSE MARTINEZ and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Covid-19 and the Transformation of American Society, the first book-length consideration of the Covid-19 pandemic's implications, noted sociologist Jose Martinez lays bare the immense social changes that we should expect from the nouvel coronavirus, which has upended American life since March 2020. A vital theme of his critique is how inequality already entrenched in American society may worsen due to large-scale economic disruption that resonates strongly in the socioeconomic circumstances of minorities and the poor. On the other hand, society may also experience constructive social changes resulting from a widespread reconsideration of consumerism driven by frank reassessments of our wants and needs. This book addresses how the coronavirus has contributed to long-lasting reconsiderations of social relationships, from dating to leisure to education, in both negative and positive ways, and how national and cultural politics will never be the same. Martinez opens a new field in foretelling an unanticipated future for American society and, indeed, the entire world. It concludes with a consideration of possible solutions to address social changes that we are unlikely to avoid.

COVID-19 Pandemic - E-Book

Author : Jorge Hidalgo
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323828612
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book COVID-19 Pandemic - E-Book written by Jorge Hidalgo and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a broad, global view of all aspects related to preparation for and management of SARS-CoV2, COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from the Frontline explores and challenges the basis of knowledge, the transmission of information, and the preparation and epidemiology tactics of healthcare systems worldwide. This timely and provocative volume presents real-world viewpoints from leaders in different areas of health management, who address questions such as: What will we do differently if another pandemic comes? Have we learned from our mistakes? Can we do better? This practical, wide-ranging approach also covers the problem of contrasting sources, health system preparedness, effective preparation of and protection offered to individual healthcare professionals, and the human tragedy surrounding the pandemic. Offers a global perspective on how the COVID-19 pandemic was handled, things that went wrong, and things that could be done differently in the future. Covers multiple aspects of the pandemic, including disaster preparedness; perspectives from patients, families, and healthcare providers; inequity of medical resources; risk exposure on the frontline; government decision making; lockdowns; the role of politics; the burden of COVID-19 in various countries worldwide; and future directions. Reflects on the role of professional societies and NGOs in advising governments and supranational organizations. Features a diverse list of contributors, including health decision makers and frontline healthcare personnel.

The Pandemic Divide

Author : Gwendolyn L. Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478092919
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book The Pandemic Divide written by Gwendolyn L. Wright and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As COVID-19 made inroads in the United States in spring 2020, a common refrain rose above the din: "We're all in this together." However, the full picture was far more complicated-and far less equitable. Black and Latinx populations suffered illnesses, outbreaks, and deaths at a much higher rate than the general populace. Those working in low paid jobs and those living in confined housing or communities already disproportionately beset by health problems were particularly vulnerable. The contributors to The Pandemic Divide explain how these and other racial disparities came to the forefront in 2020. They explore COVID-19's impact on multiple arenas of daily life-including wealth, health, housing, employment, and education-while highlighting what steps could have been taken to mitigate the full force of the pandemic. Most crucially, the contributors offer concrete public policy solutions that would allow the nation to effectively respond to future crises and improve the long-term well-being for all Americans. Contributors. Fenaba Addo, Steve Amendum, Leslie Babinski, Sandra Barnes, Mary T. Bassett, Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Kisha Daniels, William A. Darity Jr., Melania DiPietro, Jane Dokko, Fiona Greig, Adam Hollowell, Lucas Hubbard, Damon Jones, Steve Knotek, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Henry McKoy, N. Joyce Payne, Erica Phillips, Eugene Richardson, Paul Robbins, Jung Sakong, Marta Sánchez, Melissa Scott, Kristen Stephens, Joe Trotter, Chris Wheat, Gwendolyn L. Wright"--

The COVID-19 Disaster. Volume II: Prevention and Response to Pandemics Using Artificial Intelligence

Author : Robert Irving Desourdis
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781685074852
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The COVID-19 Disaster. Volume II: Prevention and Response to Pandemics Using Artificial Intelligence written by Robert Irving Desourdis and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the work to be done in building an automated pandemic prevention and response capability for the US with international extensions and extendibility using artificial intelligence. The complexity of operational decisions, information sharing, situational awareness, and planned/ongoing actions by thousands of actors in pandemic prevention, preparedness and response is far too great for anyone to manage effectively. The deaths and economic devastation caused by COVID-19 yet again proved this fact, much like all other major disasters we have endured. There are too many organizations, too many differing plans and agendas, too many different people of varying experience in positions of responsibility, and too much information as well as critical need for optimal decisions and actions, to avoid calamity during the inevitable next pandemic. We need automated planning, information vetting/sharing and rapid action to optimize prevention and, if not prevented, response to minimize spread. Volume I laid out the case for a better approach than exists in the U.S. today, and our nation's military - touted as the best in the world - employs methodologies with precision and fidelity that optimize rapid decision making for human-sized enemies. It turns out these same methodologies and associated technologies work just as well with our microscopic enemies, like COVID-19. This book provides an overview of how it should be developed, implemented and evolved nationwide before the next pandemic. Seems like we finally should get our "act" together, otherwise the toll for passage of the next virus could be far higher as we remain unprepared. It will be hard and extensive work, which some have referenced the "Manhattan Project" or the Apollo Program, but the COVID-19 death count mandates we apply our best effort to prevent another pandemic disaster. We are better equipped now than ever to do so.