Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic

by Scott Gottlieb

In New York City, fourth-year medical students at New York University Grossman School of Medicine were given the option of graduating early if they agreed to work on the hospital’s COVID wards.1 It was an eerie throwback to events that unfolded one hundred years earlier, during the Spanish flu, when Philadelphia—critically short of healthcare workers—pressed medical students into service.