
Engineering for Pandemics: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
The 2020 Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Engineering took place under the most unusual circumstances in the Academy''s 56-year history. In January 2020 the first few cases of a respiratory illness caused by a newly identified coronavirus were reported in the United States. By March, COVID-19 had become a global pandemic. As soon as the first few cases were reported, engineers began work...
The 2020 Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Engineering took place under the most unusual circumstances in the Academy''s 56-year history. In January 2020 the first few cases of a respiratory illness caused by a newly identified coronavirus were reported in the United States. By March, COVID-19 had become a global pandemic. As soon as the first few cases were reported, engineers began work...