From The Social Science Research Council [1]:
Underfunding and low usage of the system contributed to the nation’s decentralized response.17
17. For more on NSSP, see “How NSSP Works Across CDC [2],” Centers for Disease Controland Prevention,accessed September 30, 2020. For critiques of the US federal response to Covid-19, see, for example, Philip Wallach and Justus Myers, The Federal Government’s Coronavirus Response—Public Health Timeline [3] (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, March 2020); Alexis C. Madrigal and Robinson Meyer, “How the Coronavirus Became an American Catastrophe [4],” The Atlantic, March 21, 2020.
Endnotes
- “The Social Science Research Council”: https://covid19research.ssrc.org/public-health-surveillance-and-human-rights-network/report/
- “How NSSP Works Across CDC”: https://www.cdc.gov/nssp/partners/how-nssp-works.html
- “The Federal Government’s Coronavirus Response—Public Health Timeline”: https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-federal-governments-coronavirus-actions-and-failures-timeline-and-themes/
- “How the Coronavirus Became an American Catastrophe”: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-are-sick-lost-february/608521/