Webinar: Joseph Stiglitz The U.S. Response to COVID-19 With introductions by Markus Brunnermeier, Director of the Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance Stiglitz is a Professor at Columbia University and a 2001 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics. In this presentation, Stiglitz talked about US response to COVID-19. There is a high level of uncertainty on economic implications. Crisis revealed multiple market failures. However, in that type of term, government must give response to crisis fast, unfortunately US has inability to respond quickly. First of all, Joseph mentioned on the health system situation for US such as Low life expectancy, high incidence of health problems, low level of health insurance coverage, few hospital beds (relative to population). From my opinion, Mr. Stiglitz must touch upon healty sector expenditure in US before COVID-19 because response to crisis may not start in crisis time, whatever do previous for healty sector, can respond to virus te