ReviewPreventive medicine reports2023
The United States public health services failure to control the coronavirus epidemic.
Review in Preventive medicine reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Emerging Autochthonous Transmission of Travel-Associated Vector-Borne Infections in the Continental United States.Delaware journal of public health · 2025Article
- Handing Money to the Poor Is Never Enough: The Impact of Marginalization-Related Diminished Returns.Global journal of epidemiology and infectious disease · 2024Article
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Abstract
The unprecedented COVID-19 epidemic in the United States (US) and worldwide, caused by a new type of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), occurred mostly because of higher-than-expected transmission speed and degree of virulence compared with previous respiratory virus outbreaks, especially earlier Coronaviruses with person-to-person transmission (e.g., MERS, SARS). The epidemic's size and duration, however, are mostly a function of failure of public health systems to prevent/control the epidemic. In the US, this failure was due to historical disinvestment in public health services, key players equivocating on decisions, and political interference in public health actions. In this communication, we present a summary of these failures, discuss root causes, and make recommendations for improvement with focus on public health decisions.
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