There was a time when I thought that the United States public health infrastructure was one of the keys to America’s success as a nation.
America has been, over the past century, a shining example of a resilient society. It’s not that bad things don’t happen here; they happen everywhere. But here in the US, we can mobilize resources to deal with emergencies better than most countries.
But, as has happened to all our institutions, public health officials are simply one more part of the Establishment blob that has metastasized into a cancerous growth on the body politic.
Jay Varma is a metaphor for public healthhttps://t.co/NgJJHgjYe1
— Vinay Prasad MD MPH (@VPrasadMDMPH) September 24, 2024
There is hardly an institution in our society that isn’t fundamentally corrupt and self-dealing, and public health has proven to be no exception. As Dr. Vinay Prasad lays out in this article…
