, paying for masks, contact tracers and education campaigns to persuade people to get vaccinated.
After the pandemic is over, public health officials across the U.S. fear, they’ll be back to scraping together money from a patchwork of sources to provide basic services to their communities — much like after the Sept. 11 attacks and the SARS and Ebola outbreaks.tore through South America in 2016, causing serious birth defects in newborn babies, members of Congress couldn’t agree how, and how much, to spend in the U.S. for prevention efforts, such as education and mosquito abatement.
Spending for state public health departments dropped by 16% per capita from 2010 to 2019, and spending for local health departments fell by 18%, KHN and The Associated Press found in. At least 38,000 public health jobs were lost at the state and local level between the 2008 recession and 2019. Today, many public health workers are hired on a temporary or part-time basis. Some are paid so poorly they qualify for public aid.
Important thread about batteries and CO2:
A big American problem is we allow profiteering in anything...mass incarceration, poverty (payday loans come to mind), and our atrocious privatized healthcare system. We need to cut-off the profit incentive when it comes to monetizing misery
Where are the Medicare for all democrats lol
Dumping billions of dollars without a comprehensive “zero covid” strategy is an absolute waste of resources. The US government has failed at every turn because its sole focus has been on economic considerations, not public health.
People need a little more good news now.
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Well, it was good for markets.
NIH