Commentary: Will America’s public health reckoning ever come?

Will America’s public health reckoning ever come? Despite the many failures of our Covid response, very little about U.S. pandemic infrastructure has changed. But some are still working to find compromise reforms. Rachel Cohrs STAT

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Virtually everyone generally agrees some kind of transformative public health reform is needed — Republicans, Democrats, and the public health agencies themselves. But they disagree on how to go about changes. It doesn’t help that Congress couldn’t agree on putting together a commission to examine the pandemic response.

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There are still some outside scholars, experts, and organizations working to compile ideas if a moment of reckoning ever does come. Congress is facing a deadline next year to reauthorize the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act, which could be an opportunity for some action.

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