Gregory Pence is an award-winning bioethicist with nearly 50 years' of experience in the field, teaching at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center. His books include Pandemic Bioethics, Brave New Bioethics, How to Build a Better Human: An Ethical Blueprint, and Overcoming Addiction: Seven Imperfect Solutions and the End of America's Greatest Epidemic. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

What Went Wrong takes a long, hard look at how the pandemic was handled in America. As Covid is unlikely to be the last pandemic, this book is a necessary stimulus to think hard about how we can do better next time.

• Preface Chapter 1. The Prime Directive Chapter 2. Overview of Viruses, Pandemics, and Covid Chapter 3. Education on LockdownChapter 4. Who Shall Live When Not All Can?Chapter 5. Philosophical Questions Raised by PandemicsChapter 6. Investigating Covid’s OriginsChapter 7. Vaccines and their Ethical IssuesChapter 8. Truthful Messaging, Testing, and Public TrustChapter 9. Censoring False Messages about Covid and VaccinesChapter 10. Abandoning the Dying and the InfirmsChapter 11. Failures of Contact TracingChapter 12. Federal Largesse during CovidChapter 13. Failures of International CooperationChapter 14. Rethinking Vaccine MandatesChapter 15. Changes Accelerated by CovidChapter 16. The Challenge of Long Covid and Disability Chapter 17. The Mysteries of Good and Bad Covid Leadership Chapter 18. Why Operation Warp Speed Almost Didn’t HappenChapter 19. Future Problems and Positives

Gregory Pence is an award-winning bioethicist with nearly 50 years' of experience in the field, teaching at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center. His books include Pandemic Bioethics, Brave New Bioethics, How to Build a Better Human: An Ethical Blueprint, and Overcoming Addiction: Seven Imperfect Solutions and the End of America's Greatest Epidemic. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

What Went Wrong takes a long, hard look at how the pandemic was handled in America. As Covid is unlikely to be the last pandemic, this book is a necessary stimulus to think hard about how we can do better next time.

• Preface Chapter 1. The Prime Directive Chapter 2. Overview of Viruses, Pandemics, and Covid Chapter 3. Education on LockdownChapter 4. Who Shall Live When Not All Can?Chapter 5. Philosophical Questions Raised by PandemicsChapter 6. Investigating Covid’s OriginsChapter 7. Vaccines and their Ethical IssuesChapter 8. Truthful Messaging, Testing, and Public TrustChapter 9. Censoring False Messages about Covid and VaccinesChapter 10. Abandoning the Dying and the InfirmsChapter 11. Failures of Contact TracingChapter 12. Federal Largesse during CovidChapter 13. Failures of International CooperationChapter 14. Rethinking Vaccine MandatesChapter 15. Changes Accelerated by CovidChapter 16. The Challenge of Long Covid and Disability Chapter 17. The Mysteries of Good and Bad Covid Leadership Chapter 18. Why Operation Warp Speed Almost Didn’t HappenChapter 19. Future Problems and Positives

Gregory Pence is an award-winning bioethicist with nearly 50 years' of experience in the field, teaching at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center. His books include Pandemic Bioethics, Brave New Bioethics, How to Build a Better Human: An Ethical Blueprint, and Overcoming Addiction: Seven Imperfect Solutions and the End of America's Greatest Epidemic. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

What Went Wrong takes a long, hard look at how the pandemic was handled in America. As Covid is unlikely to be the last pandemic, this book is a necessary stimulus to think hard about how we can do better next time.

• Preface Chapter 1. The Prime Directive Chapter 2. Overview of Viruses, Pandemics, and Covid Chapter 3. Education on LockdownChapter 4. Who Shall Live When Not All Can?Chapter 5. Philosophical Questions Raised by PandemicsChapter 6. Investigating Covid’s OriginsChapter 7. Vaccines and their Ethical IssuesChapter 8. Truthful Messaging, Testing, and Public TrustChapter 9. Censoring False Messages about Covid and VaccinesChapter 10. Abandoning the Dying and the InfirmsChapter 11. Failures of Contact TracingChapter 12. Federal Largesse during CovidChapter 13. Failures of International CooperationChapter 14. Rethinking Vaccine MandatesChapter 15. Changes Accelerated by CovidChapter 16. The Challenge of Long Covid and Disability Chapter 17. The Mysteries of Good and Bad Covid Leadership Chapter 18. Why Operation Warp Speed Almost Didn’t HappenChapter 19. Future Problems and Positives