The Turning Point

We need a health system that generates health, and there are three changes we can make to get there.

Clarity about the goalposts of any health condition benefits us as a society responding to new and evolving diseases.

Acknowledging the grief of many, providing adequate mental health support to meet rising demand, and creating visible markers of the pandemic will help to mark the grief of this moment now and in the future.

Although it feels like it never will, grief passes. And so grief, when it is with us, carries within it a future.

Greater engagement of the public sector is not only welcome but essential, both to mitigate the current pandemic and to help us prevent a future one.

Simple acts of compassion first tested during Covid-19 can be an important first step to alleviate the daily hardships experienced by the 2.3 million incarcerated Americans.

Take a drive with Michael Stein and Sandro Galea as they use a speed limit analogy to examine who should make pandemic decisions that must strike a balance between public health and economic consequences.

With every day of inaction counting against us, the expense and suffering of Covid-19 escalated; the health effects of climate change will only be worse in due course.

Our ethical norms about when we should deploy biological solutions to novel viral assaults have changed before. Is it time for new, post-Covid-19 ethical standards for how we approve and deploy vaccines?

The Covid-19 moment creates an opportunity for change, but that change is unlikely to be predominantly about individual behavior.