This is the first in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left Americans rightly skeptical of public health institutions. This series highlights key findings from several congressional oversight reports, including the final report of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, and offers lessons for Congress and the new administration on ways to restore trust in public health.
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, America experienced massive business closures, supply disruptions, and record unemployment that reached 14.7% by April of 2020. Unfortunately, the well-intentioned efforts to address this incredible distress through new economic relief programs were marred by immense waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayers’ money, much of which is detailed in…
