On September 4th, I attended a Zoom event hosted by COMPAS, which stands for Conversations on Morality, Politics and Society. I specifically enjoyed hearing from Denise Jameison, an OBGYN from Emory University. She was also formerly a team leader for the Center of Disease Control during the Ebola Response during 2014 and Zika Response in 2016. She believes that our efforts in combatting COVID-19 have simply seen inadequate. We need more testing, contact tracing, more masking and more distancing. Public Health is a team sport and Dr. Jameison thinks of it as an STD. This makes sense in the way that COVID-19 is not just about who you are with, but also who they have been with. It becomes complex very fast. Additionally, we are lacking detailed information about risk and it is always evolving. This leads to general confusion and the policy in place to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 is constantly changing. Dr. Jameison also states that the CDC needs to be a completely separate entity from the rest of government. Otherwise, decisions become more political, rather than the best course of action for the wellbeing of the United States. As a Public Health major and Contact Tracer for OSU, I found this panel extremely fascinating and felt that the panelist did a great job of highlighting the flaws in the current actions we are taking to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Topics like these are why I am so interested in learning about international affairs. I specifically love learning about how various international issues impact the health of individuals around the world.