Instead of concrete plans to deal with the inevitable virus spread, school officials often shifted responsibility to students, ordering them not to gather. Universities were surprisingly unprepared to deal with young adults’ irresistible need to socialize
The mixed messages are just another sign of the dysfunctional public health messaging coming from the Trump Administration, which risk undermining the country’s confidence in a vaccine, Peter Hotez, dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, told Nightly today.
We're going to require an unprecedented level of public health communications at a time when the U.S. government has never failed more miserably at science communication. There seems to be no adult supervision over the whole program. I have an MD and a PhD. Ivm an expert vaccine scientist and it’s very confusing for me to try to figure out [what the White House is saying]. I can imagine the frustration for the average person.The quality of the science is good. The clinical trials are well done. So, you know, people like myself try to put the best foot forward on what the government’s doing. They make it a lot tougher.
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