Lessons Learned from the US Covid Response

I went to a Chatham House Rules lunch today at AEI and joined with fellow DC Swampians to talk about what we’ve learned from the whole of government response to COVID here in the US. It’s a worthy topic and I think the collective experience was sufficient to provide some decent consensus on what might have been done better. At the center of the conversation was the issue of trust in science. Surrounding that donut-hole (perfect metaphor) was a human capital problem–we don’t train folks to manage crises of this scale.

Another reason for Mason grad students to register for my Fall course on managing large-scale US government crises (self-recommending as Tyler would say).