Safeguarding America from the COVID-19 epidemic: A failed promise

Safeguarding America from COVID-19: A failed promise

The United States is presently contending with the viral health threat known popularly as ‘the Coronavirus’. Known more technically as the SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 virus, this viral health threat is presently having a profound effect upon just about every aspect of American life, massively disrupting our social, economic and public health affairs as more and more individuals are found to have been infected by clinically detectable traces of (infections with) the viral entity in reference.

As the epidemic, now officially described and referred to by NIH, WHO and CDC agencies as being of pandemic proportions, continues to spread, the predictable psychological effects any biological threat entity intrinsically carries with it are having a far greater and wider-ranging impact on the public than any actual physical health threat the virus poses.

Experiences with other major chemical and biological threats to health and well-being have shown us over and over that allaying fear, quelling needless anxieties and separating fact from fantasy are the chief critical challenges that our health agencies face whenever something like the COVID-19 virus appears unexpectedly or suddenly, on a burgeoning scale. This has been the case from the dawn of recorded history, beginning with humanity’s earliest experiences with biological diseases, including the notorious ‘Black Death’ (Plague, or more properly Yersinia…