Professors Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee Assess the Politics of Covid
The BOOK, In Covid’s Wake (Princeton University Press), is a comprehensive assessment of the political responses to the Covid pandemic. Authors Macedo and Lee question why pre-Covid plans were largely ignored, if dissenting voices were treated with fairness, and if the adopted policies actually worked. They examine how governments, influenced by Wuhan’s lockdown, abandoned existing strategies in global pandemics and how these policies disproportionately harmed essential workers and vulnerable, underprivileged families. Science was suddenly caught up in a web of political polarization. They underline the importance of open-mindedness, democracy, and evidence in future crises.