Introduction / Elizabeth Anne Kirley and Deborah Porter -- Part I. Healthcare : 1. How smart is COVID? / Elizabeth Anne Kirley and Deborah Porter -- 2. Nothing about me without me: rationing and shared end-of-life decision-making during a pandemic / Sharyn Milnes, Lisa Mitchell, Neil Orford, Deborah Porter and Nicholas Simpson -- 3. Decisions in the maternity unit: containment in Taiwan and Canada / Li-Yin Chien and Su-Chen Liao with Julie Doldersum -- Part II. Leadership : 4. Designed for disruption: fractured supply chains and politicized global trading / Stephen Wilks -- 5. Leadership vacuum and mask deniers / Elizabeth Anne Kirley and Marilyn McMahon -- 6. Hard lessons: long-term care homes as hot spots in Australia / Joseph E. Ibrahim -- Part III. Security : 7. Intellectual property protections for vaccines and PPE / Ana Santos Rutschman -- 8. How do you self-isolate with nowhere to live? / Carolyn Whitzman -- 9. From crisis to sanctuary: prisoners in peril during COVID / Michael A. Crystal, Jacob Medvedev, and Peter Ketcheson -- Part IV. Education and technology : 10. Will going online save or sink the traditional university systems? / William H. Dutton -- 11. Chatbots can teach us to detect fake news during COVID / Jacky Visser and Elena Musi -- 12. Technology's greatest gift to the voyeur: webcams in the K-12 classroom / David Guida -- Conclusions: what COVID can teach / Elizabeth Anne Kirley and Deborah Porter.
Summary:
This book examines the role of law and policy in addressing the public health crisis of COVID-19 and offers reforms that could improve pandemic preparedness for future outbreaks. Focusing on a number of countries most expected to provide agility and organization in their crisis response -- the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and Taiwan -- the book shows how failures in leadership from governments, executives, and institutions created a vacuum that was quickly filled by naysayers, conspiracy theorists, leadership, security, and education, the chapters address critical questions: Why have masks become such a polarizing force? How do you self-isolate if you don't have a home? How should equitable triage models for overwhelmed frontline healthcare workers be developed? Can we utilize artificial intelligence to educate the public about manipulated information they access concerning the pandemic? The book was written during the pandemic and weaves in to each chapter vignettes with personal revelations from a broad range of countries, including some also grappling with poverty, war, natural disasters, or revolution--back cover.
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