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Reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA: Will we be better prepared next time?
- Source :
- International Journal of Infectious Diseases, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol 96, Iss, Pp 610-613 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- The United States (US) spends more on healthcare than any other country with little evidence of better, or even comparable, outcomes. We reflect on the US and the COVID-19 pandemic and focus on cultural, economic and structural barriers that threaten both current and future responses to infectious diseases emergencies. These include the US healthcare delivery model, the defunding of public health, a scarcity of infectious diseases physicians, the market failure of vaccines and anti-infectives and the concept of American exceptionalism. Without institutionalizing the lessons learned, the US will be positioned to repeat the missteps of COVID-19 with the next pandemic.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty
Economic growth
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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030106 microbiology
Article
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
Scarcity
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Healthcare delivery
Political science
Health care
Pandemic
medicine
lcsh:RC109-216
030212 general & internal medicine
media_common
Market failure
business.industry
Public health
American exceptionalism
General Medicine
Infectious Diseases
business
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Details
- ISSN :
- 12019712
- Volume :
- 96
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9a96453305c1c8f2f8ab53078366d5d0