Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 Profile picture
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Sep 29, 2021, 5 tweets

1/ Such an important piece by @edyong209:
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Our health system is broken.
Health system isn't synonymous with healthcare.
The healthcare industry isn't designed to fight pandemics.

2/ We don't value public health in this country.
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
We don't value PUBLIC in this country.
We don't think we're all in it together.

3/ Health is SOCIAL, not individual.
Biomedical interventions don't fix social problems.

4/ Health is bigger than me or you.

Until we understand that and frame our policies accordingly, we will remain vulnerable to pandemics and other public health crises.

5/ The future of public health:

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