4 Years into the COVID-19 Pandemic: Where We Stand
By declaring the pandemic over by fiat, the government is giving up the fight when they should be redoubling their efforts.
rochelle walensky
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Read more: Unmasking Public Health Unmasking Public Health
It is time for our public health entities to reinvigorate their role as a force of legal and moral suasion to protect the public’s health.
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Read more: We Haven’t ‘Learned the Lessons of COVID’ Until We Remake the Political Economy of Health We Haven’t ‘Learned the Lessons of COVID’ Until We Remake the Political Economy of Health
No one will have learned from COVID, or any such crisis, until we undo this fundamental, toxic relationship of health to capital once and for all.
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Read more: For Whom Does the CDC Think it Works? For Whom Does the CDC Think it Works?
Protecting the public’s health stands in direct conflict with the interests of those who fund elections and those who hold political power.
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Read more: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 3: We Have the Tools (Sept. – Dec. 2021) A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 3: We Have the Tools (Sept. – Dec. 2021)
The “tools” stood for individual choices based on personal risk tolerance rather than elements of regulatory frameworks to be pursued by the government.
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Read more: Déjà Vu All Over Again Déjà Vu All Over Again
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us time and time again that whatever progress we make in curbing transmission of the virus is fragile and easily reversed.
