*COVID-19 pandemic, *PANDEMICS, *GUILDS, *INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics), *FEDERAL government
Abstract
The entire world seems to have responded to COVID-19 pandemic in a knee-jerk manner with a short mindset without building on the existing strengths of public health infrastructure. National governments cannot be blamed for this as we are dealing with a crisis that comes once in a lifetime. Realising this, the Organized Medicine Academic Guild (OMAG) an association of major health associations in this country has suggested measures for long-term solutions to COVID-19-like pandemics in the form of a policy paper by OMAG. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
A personal narrative is presented in which author shares his experience of completing his project with the use of papers had travelled from the Midwest to California and back again during spring 2020 shelter-at-home order in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.