US public health after covid-19: learning from the failures of the hollow state and racial capitalism

Feldman, Justin M; Bassett, Mary T

doi:10.1136/bmj-2023-076969

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“…Modern societies do not show a growing trend toward universal moral norms, but rather toward privatization, erosion of the state's role in economic redistribution, and political abandonment of the state as a tool of major social transformation aimed at rectifying injustices and improving lives, exactly contrasting the major issues to improve public policy during the pandemic (23,24). The increase of freedom can also be viewed as a circumscribed role of the state -apparent in governmental failures in creating comprehensive national platforms of non-pharmaceutical interventions and a heavy reliance on the private sector for functions ranging from public policy development to vaccine distribution (24). The model of public health research reliant on scientific investigation only has sidelined social needs and separated researchers and those working in public agencies.…”

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Ethical implications of COVID-19 management—is freedom a desired aim, or a desired means to an end?

Košec,

Hergešić,

Zdilar

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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Most developed societies managed, due to their prosperity and resource abundance, to structure relationships among free individuals in such a way to leave them fundamentally unstructured, according to the free market principle. As the pandemic illustrated well, this lack of structure when facing collective threats makes it impossible to collectively and proportionately assess and manage its implications and consequences. This may be particularly precarious when introducing comprehensive, monitoring and tracking, surveillance systems dependent on the vaccination status of the individual. If our previously shared aims were successfully and collectively enacted with the greatest of costs, is it permissible that the degree of personal freedom is a commodity, and everyone is a compulsory participant? The need to control one’s COVID-19 status allows the individual to become legally free from excessive enactment of sovereignty of the state. Should these rights be regulated by the free market?

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“…The model of public health research reliant on scientific investigation only has sidelined social needs and separated researchers and those working in public agencies. This approach often leaves public health officials in a weak position: left to rely on diplomacy, rather than law, to encourage action (24).…”

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Ethical implications of COVID-19 management—is freedom a desired aim, or a desired means to an end?

Košec,

Hergešić,

Zdilar

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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“…Racial capitalism refers to the centrality of race in structuring social and labor hierarchies in capitalist economies. This system ensures “a vulnerable supply of low wage workers” and reflects the “strategic deployment of racism by governing elites with the intention of reproducing class privilege”14151617…”

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Race, racism, and covid-19 in the US: lessons not learnt

Bentley-Edwards,

Adisa,

Ruff

et al. 2024

BMJ

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Influence of COVID-19 on trust in routine immunization, health information sources and pandemic preparedness in 23 countries in 2023

Lazarus,

White,

Wyka

et al. 2024

Nat Med

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It is unclear how great a challenge pandemic and vaccine fatigue present to public health. We assessed perspectives on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and routine immunization as well as trust in pandemic information sources and future pandemic preparedness in a survey of 23,000 adults in 23 countries in October 2023. The participants reported a lower intent to get a COVID-19 booster vaccine in 2023 (71.6%), compared with 2022 (87.9%). A total of 60.8% expressed being more willing to get vaccinated for diseases other than COVID-19 as a result of their experience during the pandemic, while 23.1% reported being less willing. Trust in 11 selected sources of vaccine information each averaged less than 7 on a 10-point scale with one’s own doctor or nurse and the World Health Organization, averaging a 6.9 and 6.5, respectively. Our findings emphasize that vaccine hesitancy and trust challenges remain for public health practitioners, underscoring the need for targeted, culturally sensitive health communication strategies.

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US public health after covid-19: learning from the failures of the hollow state and racial capitalism

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

Ethical implications of COVID-19 management—is freedom a desired aim, or a desired means to an end?

Ethical implications of COVID-19 management—is freedom a desired aim, or a desired means to an end?

Race, racism, and covid-19 in the US: lessons not learnt

Influence of COVID-19 on trust in routine immunization, health information sources and pandemic preparedness in 23 countries in 2023

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