Also improvements to public health information systems. It seems like there are a lot of people employed in public health in the US across the local, state and federal levels and those people are not served by good systems.
The fact that for most of the pandemic, a volunteer effort run by The Atlantic magazine was better at reporting disease statistics than the CDC is a flashing red sign.
My own county’s system seemed designed for tracing and reporting a handful of cases per week for TB outbreaks or the like and was knocked over when the COVID surges happened.
The fact that for most of the pandemic, a volunteer effort run by The Atlantic magazine was better at reporting disease statistics than the CDC is a flashing red sign.
My own county’s system seemed designed for tracing and reporting a handful of cases per week for TB outbreaks or the like and was knocked over when the COVID surges happened.