POLICY PAPER - University of the Philippines Diliman

The philippine government s COVID-19 response has been reactive, ad hoc and inadequate. While quarantine and social distancing measures may have slowed down the spread of new cases of SARS-CoV2 infections, the government has been slow to scale up the capacity of the healthcare system to test, trace and treat COVID-19 patients as well as attend to the non-COVID related health needs of the population. The gaps and failings in the government s COVID-19 response can not merely be attributed to poor leadership or the lack of experience in dealing with a pandemic of this scale. From the onset, the philippine s pandemic response has been fundamentally constrained by the sorry state of the public health system in the country.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a finance professor in New York University and former Wall Street trader who used it to refer to extremely rare and unexpected events with catastrophic consequences such as the 2008 global financial crisis or the 911 attacks in the US. Taleb himself, however, insists that the COVID-19 pandemic is in fact a “white

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