The Quiet Resilience of the Health Machine As autumn leaves begin to turn, pharmacies across the United States are already pinging phones, deploying texts, and hanging flyers for this season’s updated flu and COVID-19 Read More
When the Data Gets Rewritten A national public health agency just edited its own history, publicly undermining the very data it purports to manage. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for years the gold Read More
Beyond the Numbers: A Failure of Platform Governance The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest data, indicating a persistent decline in US kindergarten vaccination rates, reads less as a public health statistic and Read More
A Troubling Precedent for Public Health Governance The 51–44 Senate vote confirming Erica Schwartz as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director this week did more than fill a critical leadership vacancy; it formalized the Read More
The Echo Chamber of ‘Wrong’ When Stanley Plotkin, a 93-year-old titan of vaccinology, recently lamented that he’s “beginning to regret having lived so long—because we’re going downhill,” he articulated a frustration many Read More