A sobering and depressing read. What’s even more depressing is we’ll probably stumble through this, get past it (hopefully), and nothing significant will change before the next pandemic, which might be dramatically worse.
The article presents the case much better than I could summarize, but effectively we need dramatically better coordination between government, public health organizations, and healthcare, and that coordination should be established before a crisis hits.
reclaiming the term a little to be closer to the broader "pertaining to public affairs", it's hard to see how public health could be anything but.
I hope for, and am prepared to pivot my career in support of, a resurgence of public health work opportunities. (which atul gawande points out in an earlier column from april or so)
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A sobering and depressing read. What’s even more depressing is we’ll probably stumble through this, get past it (hopefully), and nothing significant will change before the next pandemic, which might be dramatically worse.
What should change?
The article presents the case much better than I could summarize, but effectively we need dramatically better coordination between government, public health organizations, and healthcare, and that coordination should be established before a crisis hits.
and not systematically de-funded right before the next crisis, unlike this time.
I wanted to avoid the political aspects, but yes.
reclaiming the term a little to be closer to the broader "pertaining to public affairs", it's hard to see how public health could be anything but.
I hope for, and am prepared to pivot my career in support of, a resurgence of public health work opportunities. (which atul gawande points out in an earlier column from april or so)