Chan School of Public Health. AD“When the president is calling the guidance wrong and endorsing the view that these public health experts are lying, it makes it incredibly difficult for the public to know what to do,” he said. Trump’s aides have amplified his statements promoting a return to normalcy and undermining government health expertise in the middle of a pandemic. “So, we’ve created cases.”Sommers said that kind of politicized rhetoric about a pandemic is “really damaging” to efforts to mount a coherent public health response. From a public health side and a medical side, that’s just a tragedy.”AD

Source: Washington Post July 13, 2020 22:05 UTC