POLI 330 Week 2 Creative Writing Assignment_Analyzing Public Policy Through a Lens of Federalism - COVID-19

I believe the federal and state governments must collaborate to be able to effectively provide public health and safety. Team -up between the federal government and the states to deliver public health services that promote healthy lifestyles, prevent illness and injury, and shield communities from health hazards in various ways require cooperative federal-state collaborations. covid 19 is only one example, and it taught us how pandemic like covid 19 will impact communities entirely for example economically, socially, mental health, burden on the healthcare system. To create strong communities, we must think and our government system must consider how to handle similar situations in the future. There is a study the federal government's involvement from a position of policy execution in an intergovernmental system because there were pandemic response plans and procedures in place that were meant to combine federal and state policy action. One model of successful policy implementation in the federal system. states that for policies to be successfully implemented, the federal government must clearly communicate the policy to the states, the states must be able to implement the policy and be receptive to it, and the states must perceive the federal policy as credible (Birkland et al.,2021). Being one of the most powerful countries in the world, COVID-19 has severely affected our nation during that period, an estimated 24% of deaths nationally were underreported, meaning that COVID-19 was either directly or indirectly responsible for almost 180,000 more deaths than the 582,135 listed on death certificates by May 2021 (Moghadas & Galvani, 2021). We could handle it far better, but the government did everything it could to lessen its consequences. The existence of a loophole must be acknowledged. A lack of leadership in infection control, financial hardships, scarce resources, and numerous other problems may be the reason. I believed that rather than concentrating on serious issues at the time, the government diverted attention from them and engaged in a blaming game. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal and state governments worked together under a cooperative