The Prime Directive -- Overview of Viruses, Pandemics, and Covid -- Education on Lockdown -- Who Shall Live When Not All Can? -- Philosophical Questions Raised by Pandemics -- Investigating Covid's Origins -- Vaccines and their Ethical Issues -- TruthfulMessaging, Testing, and Public Trust -- Censoring False Messages about Covid and Vaccines -- Abandoning the Dying and the Infirms -- Failures of Contact Tracing -- Federal Largesse during Covid -- Failures of International Cooperation -- Rethinking Vaccine Mandates -- Changes Accelerated by Covid -- The Challenge of Long Covid and Disability -- The Mysteries of Good and Bad Covid Leadership -- Why Operation Warp Speed Almost Didn't Happen -- Future Problems and Positives

"America's response to Covid cost too many lives, set our children back in their education, and forever damaged our trust in our government. In this book, a leading bioethicist reveals how the best intentions resulted in disastrous consequences for our nation. To honor the lives lost, we must learn from our mistakes before the next crisis hits"--