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Lorsque la pandémie s'est accélérée en 2020, les hôpitaux américains, comme celui-ci à New York, ont installé des tentes pour administrer des tests afin de dépister le COVID-19. Misha Friedman via Getty Images

Cinq ans après la pandémie de Covid‑19, la capacité de réponse de plusieurs grandes agences de santé pourrait être menacée

Katherine A. Foss, Middle Tennessee State University

Avant la création des grandes agences de santé publique, les épidémies avaient le champ libre. Cinq ans après la pandémie de Covid-19, les mesures de l’administration Trump font craindre un retour en arrière.
As the pandemic accelerated in 2020, U.S. hospitals – including this one in New York City – set up tents to diagnose patients with COVID-19. Misha Friedman via Getty Images

5 years of COVID‑19 underscore value of coordinated efforts to manage disease – while CDC, NIH and WHO face threats to their ability to respond to a crisis

Katherine A. Foss, Middle Tennessee State University

More than a century ago, the US learned what happens when there is no national response to a major health crisis.
For much of the 20th century, Americans were used to seeing people bearing the signs of past polio infection. Genevieve Naylor/Corbis via Getty Images

‘Got polio?’ messaging underscores a vaccine campaign’s success but creates false sense of security as memories of the disease fade in US

Katherine A. Foss, Middle Tennessee State University

Polio vaccines have been a massive public health victory in the US. But purely celebratory messaging overlooks the ongoing threat if vaccination rates fall.
A high school student gets his COVID-19 shot at a pop-up vaccine clinic at a public charter school in Los Angeles. Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Shutting down school vaccine clinics doesn’t protect minors – it hurts people who are already disadvantaged

Katherine A. Foss, Middle Tennessee State University

For decades, US schools have been common sites for vaccine clinics to respond to outbreaks and provide catch-up immunizations. So why are they suddenly controversial?
An unidentified doctor talks with a boy who holds a lollipop reward after participating in a measles vaccine research program in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, in 1963. NASA/PhotoQuest/Getty Images

What’s in a name for a vaccine campaign? Maybe the end of the pandemic

Katherine A. Foss, Middle Tennessee State University

Vaccination has been controversial from its beginning. Gaining people’s trust in vaccines has been crucial. An important part of that is a strong communications plan.

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