Former US Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders spoke with Democrat-Gazette reporter Aaron Gettinger for a discussion on modern healthcare trends and policy on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.
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When public health works well, water runs clean, children are vaccinated to prevent polio and measles epidemics -- and nobody notices it. We have also seen, after the covid pandemic, what public health and a society do when interventions aimed at preventing a crisis fail.
