Prevention is the key to saving lives: What the pandemic taught us

KevinMD November 3, 2024
Anand Parekh, MD

Little did I know that when Prevention First was first published in December 2019, a novel virus with pandemic potential had begun to stealthily spread in China. The subsequent global COVID-19 pandemic resulted in nearly 7 million deaths, exacerbated long-standing health challenges, and led to life expectancy declines around the globe.

With over 1.1 million American lives lost during the COVID-19 pandemic, two overarching takeaways from this difficult period should be remembered by history: most deaths were preventable, and had we done nothing, millions more would have died. The first is a reminder that so many more lives could have been saved had public health interventions been embraced by the public. And the second is a reminder that the determination,...

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