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    The Next Pandemic
    The Next Pandemic
    The Next Pandemic
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    The Next Pandemic

    By Betsy McCaughey

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    America is suffering from two public health crises. One is caused by a virus. The other, a brutal economic shutdown, is something we have brought on ourselves. Both the virus and the shutdown are deadly. But many more Americans will likely die from getting laid off than from the virus.

    The shutdown wasn’t caused by the virus. It was a frantic response to America’s unpreparedness. For more than two decades, a dozen official reports sounded the alarm. The career pols and federal bureaucrats did nothing. Message to Washington DC: No more commissions and televised hearings. It’s time to act.

    In this incendiary Encounter Broadside, Betsy McCaughey shows how to battle the next pandemic without an economic shutdown, including technologies to make workplaces healthier, protections for hospital workers, and severing dependence on China for medical supplies. 

    Despite the suffering, there's reason for optimism. America will be ready for the next pandemic.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEncounter Books
    Release dateMay 19, 2020
    ISBN9781641771580
    The Next Pandemic
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    Betsy McCaughey

    Betsy McCaughey is Chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. She has led the national outcry against hospital infection deaths, demanding cleaner, safer hospitals. She is also a former Lt. Governor of New York State, a New York Post columnist, and the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller, Beating Obamacare. She has a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and appears regularly on national television.

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      The Next Pandemic - Betsy McCaughey

      AMERICA IS SUFFERING through two public health crises, one caused by a viral pandemic from halfway around the globe, and the other we’ve brutally slammed on ourselves.

      Suffering understates each of these crises. Coronavirus is a vicious disease. Most of us have never before witnessed scenes like the corpses piled up behind hospitals in New York City, the epicenter of the pandemic. The virus’s victims, mostly elderly, drown when their lungs fill up with fluid. They die alone, because even their families are barred from visiting their bedside. Their bodies are deposited in bags and forklifted into refrigerator trucks.

      Each death is a tragedy, and tens of thousands have already died that way, with more to come.

      But the second public health crisis – the shutdown – is almost certain to kill even more Americans. And their deaths will be gruesome, too. Deaths of despair. Leaving behind families who are emotionally broken and destitute.

      The shutdown is almost certain to kill even more Americans than Coronavirus. And they will be gruesome deaths, too. Deaths of despair.

      Tens of millions of workers have been laid off because of the government-imposed shutdown. Before the virus hit, America’s unemployment rate was 3.5 percent, the lowest in fifty years. Now Goldman Sachs predicts unemployment will be at 15 percent by midyear. A St. Louis Federal Reserve economist grimly predicts 32 percent unemployment – which is worse than during the Great Depression.

      No model or guesswork is required to foresee the deadly impact. Job losses cause extreme suffering. Every 1 percent hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3 percent increase in drug overdose deaths and a 0.99 percent increase in suicides, according to data provided by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet. These are facts based on past experience, not models. If unemployment hits 32 percent, some 77,000 Americans are likely to die from suicide and drug overdoses as a result of layoffs.

      Then add the predictable deaths from alcohol abuse caused by unemployment. Ioana Popovici of Nova Southeastern University and Michael French of the University of Miami found a "significant association between job loss … and binge drinking … and alcohol abuse."

      The impact of layoffs goes beyond suicide, drug overdosing, and drinking. Overall, the death rate for an unemployed person is 63 percent higher than for someone with a job, according to findings in Social Science & Medicine.

      Not to mention the tragedies of people who spent decades building a small business, only to see it destroyed in weeks because

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