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What's the most important public health issue that the media and government officials are failing to address?
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The media is trying to spread fear in the country and is doing a lousy job of providing contextual sophistication in connection with virus data. Most politicians are failing to employ a risk-based approach to addressing the virus
—Dave Walker
COVID19 exposed the huge disparity that still exists among minority populations in access to healthcare, which also includes the way we die with minorities accessing hospice care on the average 20% less than whites.
—Jim MacPherson
How and when the medical industry makes life decisions for families or gives up on the elderly and frail because of age alone.
—Nancy May
The lack of access to primary care for the residents of underserved communities.
—Gloria McNeal
Mental health.
—Robert Nizielski
The Opioid Overdose Crisis.
—Andrea Barthwell
How the Standard American diet is responsible for America’s worst performance in the world COVID-19 outcome statistics, by damaging the human immune system. And how glyphosate and atrazine damage the immune system by harming the microbiome.
—Craig Shelton
Must focus on and differentiate protective antibodies which protect against disease, vs. reactive antibodies which simply signal the body has responded to a previous infection. How long do protective antibodies last?
—Douglas Quine
Some politicians and media have made mask-wearing a political act. Do people against mask wearing mandates go into surgery, see a masked surgeon, and say "You liberal jerk, take that mask off!"
Twisting the notion of individual freedoms endangers the public good.
—Dave Ceolin
We fail to truthfully & accurately educate our doctors and our citizens on the relationship of what we consume and our overall health. Money & marketing (Shareholder value) seems to take precedence over accurate information.
—Jim Dimond
Implications of Covid disease and economic impact on mental health.
—David Dowling
Climate change and its evil twin—air pollution.
—Philip Landrigan, MD
Trust. In the wake of the massive mismanagement by former President Trump's Administration. And because of the widespread misinformation on the internet, many Americans don’t know who or what to believe.
—Greg Conderacci
Vaccine skeptics have the additional concern of not yet knowing the long-term protection effectiveness that a vaccine may provide. If vaccines only protect for 6 months, people will delay, thinking that Covid will be perpetually among the population, so why bother?
—Steve Munini
Mental Health, we don't have a system to provide effective treatment for so many people who suffer from short term or long term mental illness.
—Steve Akin
Our unchecked cultural belief in the fallacy of a hierarchy of human value.
—Rick Brush
Health Disparities.
—Brent Pawlecki, MD