Current Issues in Canada – COVID-19 Response Assignment For this assignment you will be tasked with analysing the role different governments played in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in their...

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COVID-19 Response Assignment
Contents
Introduction    3
Covid 19 Cases and USA: National Emergency    3
Indian Response to Covid 19    5
Canadian Response to Covid 19    6
Comparative Overview    8
Works Cited    10
Introduction
The pandemic out
eak of Covid 19 has made the year 2020 the most historic one in the present century. Covid 19 virus, which has been said to be originated from the streets of Wuhan in China, could reach to almost every part of the world. The virus has already killed more than ten million people across globe. After the first case of Covid 19 infection and the time when WHO declared it as the international emergency in January, various governments have responded promptly towards sustaining the lives of their people.
Within the existing healthcare system of these nations, the governments have pushed their limits to make sure that every possible effort is done with a view to save innocent people. The following is an analysis of the spread of Covid 19 in Canada, America and India and the governments of these nations could respond to the virus out
eak.
Covid 19 Cases and USA: National Emergency
At first, it is important to note here that the US government has been alleged with the so-called ‘slow and passive’ response to the out
eak of Covid 19. When the virus could hit the American regions, the initial response of people and the government both to it was not rapid (Haffajee and Mello). Thus, at initial level, the preventive measures were not taken with a view to control the spread of virus through techniques such as lockdown, social distancing as well as contact tracing.
The common perception is that Covid 19 has revealed significant flaws in the federalist public health governance scheme of the United States, which divides powers between federal, state and local governments. SARS-CoV-2 is precisely the type of infectious disease, for which the forces and emergencies of federal public health have been conceived: it is highly transmissible, crosses borders effectively and threatens our national infrastructure and economy. Its incidence varies across the country, with especially hard hit states such as Washington, California and New York, but cases are mounting with appalling speed nationally. Consequently, solid, decisive national action is imperative (Haffajee and Mello).
Moreover, yet it was alarmingly slow to formulate the federal response, fostering uncertainty about the existence of the virus and the appropriate measures to resolve it. States and localities have been at the forefront of the response, but have unevenly exercised their public health powers. The lack of inter-jurisdictional cooperation has and will cost lives, since science-based social distancing and tailored quarantine measures will only work if enforced wherever the virus is spreading (Haffajee and Mello).
The American constitutional system lies with the states and by delegated authority, cities and counties, primary responsibility for public health. In ordinary times, states, subject to constitutionally guaranteed individual rights such as due process, equal protection and freedom of travel and association, may exercise strong "police power" to protect the health of people. The ordinary public health legal authority of the federal government is more limited and focuses on steps necessary to prevent the out
eak (Haffajee and Mello).
In addition to the helpful measures already taken to authorize the State’s major disaster declarations, the government could further use the Defense Procurement Act to guide private companies to manufacture the supplies required. This step would also be useful to waive regulatory health...