Opinion: Confronting a legacy of scarcity: a plan for reinvesting in U.S. public health
Public health in America is in crisis, a sad fact that the Covid-19 pandemic has made impossible to ignore.
Decades of chronic underfunding and a failure to invest in the public health workforce, the physical infrastructure of state and local health departments, and critical data systems have left Americans vulnerable to calamities like Covid-19 and other pathogens that lie just around the corner.
