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Reviews No book could be more timely and important than Vulnerable: The Law, Policy  and  Ethics  of  COVID-19. This book explores the uncon scionable health, social, and economic inequities revealed by COVID-19. It probes the profound weaknesses in many national responses, the defi- ciencies in global institutions, and the affronts to human rights and the rule of law. Above all, this marvellous book makes a compelling case for transparency, accountability, and justice. The book is a tour de force on the human, social, economic, and legal impacts of a once in a lifetime pandemic. Lawrence  O.  Gostin  University  Professor  and  Founding  O’Neill  Chair  in  Global  Health  Law,  Georgetown  University Through Vulnerable, we are confronted with the failures and fissures in Canadian society exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This collection unmasks the extreme vulnerability to the ravages of inequality based on race, disability, age, and immigration status, and other sites of dis- crimination. By reflecting upon power, responsibility, and account- ability, Vulnerable provides the reader with tools to use and paths to follow, to immediately begin to build our better normal. Jocelyn  Downie  James  S.  Palmer  Chair  in  Public  Policy  and  Law,  Dalhousie  University