MedCity News December 27, 2024
The public health community can circle the wagons and complain about the attacking forces outside. Alternatively, public health advocates can take a hard look in the mirror, get outside of their bubble, frankly identify failures and missteps, and determine how to regain the trust of an increasingly skeptical public.
When we face an epic threat like the Covid-19 pandemic, we call it a once-in-a-generation challenge.
Yet the public health community is facing something much bigger: a once-in-a-century challenge.
Bird flu? Mpox? No, a crisis in confidence.
Advances that have put serious diseases in the history books are at risk, as public support for basic public health measures like vaccines and fluoride shows widening cracks.
The public health community can circle...
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