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There’s Still Time to Get Ahead of the Next Global Pandemic
By learning lessons from other sectors, public health can ensure it is ready to face future outbreaks in record time.
Across health care systems around the world, funding is declining, exhausted professionals are leaving the field, and in the US state legislatures are pulling back needed legal authorities. Public health, specifically epidemiology, is beginning to reorient away from bespoke approaches to outbreak response towards the structured processes characteristic of high-reliability industries. They've aggressively implemented whole genome sequencing to identify the sources of outbreaks and developed a range of model best practices to support state and local officials in their investigations.
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