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Please respond to the following discussion post using a minimum of 200-250 words. Responding to a classmate’s thread requires both the addition of new ideas and analysis. A particular point made by the classmate must be addressed and built upon by your analysis in order to move the conversation forward. Thus, the reply is a rigorous assignment that requires you to build upon the thread to develop deeper and more thorough discussion of the ideas introduced. As such, replies that merely affirm, restate, or unprofessionally quarrel with the previous thread(s) and fail to make a valuable, substantive contribution to the discussion will receive appropriate point deductions. Please introduce and cite two new scholarly sources.Discussion post:COVID Vaccine Development as a Case Study in GovernanceThe Global Pandemic In early 2020, the epicenter of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was the site of the initial outbreak in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with significant secondary outbreaks in countries with extensive travel ties to the PRC, notably Italy and South Korea. Infections spread over the first few months of the year to every U.S. state with over 60,000 American deaths attributed to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the end of April 2020, according to Centers for Disease Control data. Large states including California and Ohio implemented stay-at-home orders. The U.S. economy entered an economic trough as unemployment rose with over 20 million lost jobs according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Constraints to Collaborative GovernanceThe U.S. government, as other nations, faced a rapidly spreading, highly contagious, and lethal pandemic. Development of a treatment to counter the public health crisis faced the range of hurdles associated with bringing any vaccine to market: inordinate capital outlay, dedicated virologists, multi-phase clinical trials, stringent licensing protocols, and sufficient manufacturing capacity for the target market. This process typically takes decades with a low success rate (Van Norman, 2020, p. 731). Collaborative governance was necessary to design a policy solution to the healthcare crisis (Amsler, 2016, p. 700). The situation called for collaboration between the executive and judicial branches of government at both the political and agency level; and between the government and key elements of the private sector and civil society. However, those relationships were strained by the stress of the novel threat, the dearth of reliable information, and competing factions amid the 2020 presidential campaignPublic-Private Sector Response On May 15, 2020, the Trump Administration announced an accelerator program named Operation Warp Speed. Despite the nod to pop-science fiction, the public-private sector initiative was deadly serious. It was led by the Departments of Health and Human Services and Defense to develop a unique pathway for “product development and vaccine distribution” (Slaoui and Hepburn, 2020, p. 1701). The Congressionally-approved initial outlay of $10 billion demonstrated bi-partisan political support for the initiative and the inclusion of multiple agencies ensured disparate views were included in “rational decision-making” (Shafritz and Hyde, 2017, p. 179) via a cross-functional ad hoc organizational structure (Fischer, 2010, p. 66). The result was the development of a vaccine “five times faster” than any previous inoculation, with accelerated manufacturing under the Defense Production Act that provided 20 million doses to States, with no payment or co-pay by the individual (The White House, 2020, Press Statement on Healthcare).Poor Information Flow Within the Covenant This writer considers governance the act of implementing the will and/or needs of the people in a legal and morally defensible way under the hesedprinciple (Fischer, 2010, p. 10). There are times that the body politic can not be consulted in advance, such as proximate danger. In addition, under the American federal system voters delegate power to elected officials and their designated agents rather than participate in a referendum for each policy. However, even in these cases, the public has a right and will to know what actions have been taken and why. At times, such as in identifying sources and methods of intelligence collection, such disclosure is delayed by decades with oversight provided by elected members of Congress and elements of the judiciary. Unfortunately, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the government seemingly has not made full disclosure of healthcare information when it was known nor is there a defensible reason to withhold such information. In Whitney vs. California (1927), Justice Brandeis suggested the best response to wrong information is “more information, not enforced silence.” While the Operation Warp Speed project met Vigoda’s (2002) definition of collaboration, the flow of information would seem to fail to meet that of public service responsiveness (p. 529), including by both right- and left-wing media filters (p. 537). This writer would suggest improved information flow to improve the successful vaccine accelerator project and its implementation. ReferencesAmsler, L.B. (2016). Collaborative Governance: Integrating Management, Politics, and Law. Public Administration Review 76(5), 700-111. https://doi-org.eproxy.liberty.edu/10/1111/puar.12605Fischer, K. (2010). “A Biblical-Covenantal Perspective on Organizational Behavior & Leadership,” Faculty Publications and Presentations 523.Shafritz, J. & Hyde, A. (2017). Classics of Public Administration, Eighth Edition.Slaoui, M., & Hepburn, M. (2020). Developing Safe and Effective Covid Vaccines — Operation Warp Speed’s Strategy and Approach. New England Journal of Medicine, 383(18), 1701-1703. https://10.1056/NEJMp2027405Van Norman, G. (2020). “Warp Speed” Operations in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Moving Too Quickly? Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) Basic to Translational Science, 5(7): 730–734. doi: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2020.06.001Vigoda, E. (2002). From Responsiveness to Collaboration: Governance, Citizens, and the Next Generation of Public Administration, Public Administration Review 62(5), 527-540.The White House, 2020, December 29 Press Statement on Healthcare, https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-123020/

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