This article from Penn Today conveys the thoughts of Penn colleague Zeke Emanuel, one of the key authors of the Affordable Care Act, about the coronavirus. His perspective is that we need to think more big picture, realizing this will be an ongoing battle until we have an effective vaccine or herd immunity, and decrying the (typical) short-sighted perspective of political leaders, focusing on opening the economy as soon as possible but seemingly lacking a viable long term plan for controlling it once we open up, and without a vision for the USA providing international leadership or working with multinational institutions on a unified global strategy.
