War in the Time of COVID: The Unsettling Convergence of Economic and Public Health Crises The past year has seen a disturbing trend: public health infrastructure eroding concurrent with rising economic uncertainty.
This dual crisis is no aberration, but rather a symptom of a deeper problem – one that threatens to overwhelm our capacity for collective response. Consider the recent Ebola outbreak in central Africa.
The United States' absence from efforts to combat this rapidly spreading disease is telling.