Even though America and the first Trump Administration rushed into production the most effective vaccine to fight the COVID pandemic as part of Project Warp Speed, our life saving efforts failed to deliver the desired results. There is no way to look at America’s response to the COVID pandemic without wondering what went wrong. America suffered 3,200 COVID deaths per million and a peak loss of 21.9 million jobs.  No major industrialized nation had a worse record.  It brought to the surface our many divisions including our partisan politics, distrust of our healthcare system, and our new addiction to disinformation.  It’s not as if we didn’t have forewarning that one day something like this would happen.  In 2005, then President George W. Bush warned that another major pandemic was inevitable.  Like so many other issues, Congress did not heed his concerns.  Even the pandemic playbook, left by President Barack Obama was ignored by the first Trump Administration.  In his book, “COVID Wars: America’s Struggle over Public Health and Personal Freedom,” technology entrepreneur, Ronald Gruner, did what the federal government has still to this day failed to do.  He went back to meticulously detail what happened with sound reasoning and much empirical evidence.