COVID Dominated Their Science Lives: Here’s What Four Experts Learned over Two Years
Adalja, an ER doctor and biosecurity specialist, saw this pandemic coming back in 2018 when he headed a report called . It states, “The most probable naturally occurring [global catastrophic biological risk]–level threat that humans face is from a respiratory-borne RNA virus.”
Back in the U.S., vaccine hesitance, even in the face of successively more contagious variants, such as Delta and then Omicron, has been tougher to combat. Limaye seemed preternaturally prepared to take up the challenge from the start of the pandemic here. “I looked at vaccine hesitancy before COVID for about five or six years,” she says.
well. So it's not unique to the United States—in the way that something that is disruptive, that none of us want to have in our presence, results in some people wanting to tackle it some people running away from it some people wanting to deliberately ignore it so that other agenda can be fulfilled. That makes it much much different than when you're dealing with it back in 2020 when there's no vaccine and everybody's sort of helpless trying to do the best they can. Now we see this being willful, or at least I see it as being willful, where you've got this great technology that that can save lives but people just choose not to take that technology, and then also then choose to come to the hospital and crush the hospital.
throughout this whole pandemic was the absence of regular even daily types of briefings from the CDC I think the second piece that we need to look at is thinking about what are the different messengers that we can use I would say of science and that would also help I think, you know, in terms of moving the needle forward, so that we are more transparent and that there's more trust in public health, as well as the health care system. So the path forward is to teach people how to risk calculate, and for too long during this pandemic we went to this abstinence-only approach.
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