The Only Constant is Resistance to Change: A Flaw in the US Response to Public Health Crises
Law’s inherent bias towards stability is poorly suited to the challenges of addressing rapidly evolving public health crises.
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Read more: Passing the Buck: What the CDC Guidance on Masks Gets Wrong About Public Health Passing the Buck: What the CDC Guidance on Masks Gets Wrong About Public Health
This shift in policy unfairly burdens small businesses and individuals to be the guardians of public health.
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Read more: What Makes a Bad Public Health Decision? And How Can We Make Good Ones? What Makes a Bad Public Health Decision? And How Can We Make Good Ones?
Bad public health decisions are made in siloes. Good public health decisions require the pooled expertise of a multi-disciplinary, non-hierarchical team.
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Read more: Public Health Law vs. Individual Advice: Why Discarding Indoor Mask Mandates Is a Mistake Public Health Law vs. Individual Advice: Why Discarding Indoor Mask Mandates Is a Mistake
Public health measures should protect the larger population, including those who cannot be or have not yet been vaccinated.
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Read more: Scope Creep: Serving Many Roles, Health Care Providers Need a Supporting Cast Scope Creep: Serving Many Roles, Health Care Providers Need a Supporting Cast
We need help. If we don’t receive this supporting cast, there might not be anyone left to play the role of health care provider.
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Read more: The Problem with Individual-Level Interventions to Curb the COVID-19 Pandemic The Problem with Individual-Level Interventions to Curb the COVID-19 Pandemic
The failure to control the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States rests, in part, on the individualist nature of our public health responses.
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Read more: The Politics of CDC Public Health Guidance During COVID-19 The Politics of CDC Public Health Guidance During COVID-19
In recent months, public health guidance from the CDC has become a site of political reckoning.
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Read more: Amending the Public Health Service Act to Encourage CDC Action to Stop COVID-19 Amending the Public Health Service Act to Encourage CDC Action to Stop COVID-19
The CDC already has all the power it needs to limit the movement of people in order to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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Read more: Southern Indiana’s HIV Outbreak: A Lesson on the Importance of Incentivizing HIV Testing Southern Indiana’s HIV Outbreak: A Lesson on the Importance of Incentivizing HIV Testing
By Mark Satta By 2015, major news outlets were reporting on what the CDC was calling “one of the worst documented outbreaks of HIV among IV users in the past two decades.” Between 2011 and 2015 over 200 people in southern Indiana’s Scott County acquired HIV. The primary source of the spread was the sharing…
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Read more: Ebola Update: Why Don’t We Seem to Care? Ebola Update: Why Don’t We Seem to Care?
By Deborah Cho It’s been over half a year since the beginning of the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, yet the number of cases and deaths from the disease continue to rise. The total case count as of September 29, 2014 is 6,574 and total deaths are at 3,091. Even so, the international response,…