When state health departments, federal health agencies and medical societies diverge, how is an ordinary person supposed to know whom to trust?
- Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois Chicago
While cholera launched modern epidemiology and has nearly disappeared in many countries, the disease never went away. It has instead retreated to the places least equipped to fight it.
Two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the flu vaccine optional in the military, an outbreak has led several branches of the military to make it mandatory again.
Geography may not provide meaningful protection once an outbreak is already underway.
To stop the spread of infectious diseases, governments need information and other resources that countries around the globe share through international organizations.
Pendant près de quatre-vingts ans, la vaccination contre la grippe allait de soi dans l’armée états-unienne. Sa remise en cause récente ne repose pas tant sur des arguments médicaux que sur une évolution politique autour de la notion de « liberté médicale ».
The US military helped create the first flu vaccine to keep service members in action – and the logic for requiring vaccination has not changed.
The judge’s decision is a win for public health, but the back-and-forth on vaccine policy may undermine the public’s trust in science.
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