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This week four experts testified at a US Senate committee about the impacts of personal protective equipment (PPE) and drug shortages during COVID-19, the effectiveness of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), and what kind of steps leaders must take to be better prepared for the next public health emergency.
The group spelled out the situation and the consequences of fragile supply chains before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing, COVID-19 Part II: Evaluating the Medical Supply Chain and Pandemic Response Gaps. Today we are in the final miles of the pandemic, but our public health crisis isn t completely over, said one of the experts, Shereef Elnahal, MD, president and chief executive officer of University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey.
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With vaccinations surging across Canada, and confirmed COVID case counts and hospitalizations at a national level declining, the other side of the pandemic is drawing tantalizingly, mercifully closer and experts are beginning to offer glimpses of the future.
There are still many unknowns, and only speculations as to “what next,” but the story that began with a pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, China 17 months ago won’t end abruptly, epidemiologists say.
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When Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, announced last week that fully vaccinated Americans no longer had to wear masks in most indoor settings unless local mandates dictate so, many public health experts scratched their heads and braced themselves for what they knew would be a confusing moment in America s battle against COVID-19. The CDC got the science right, but the policy and communication was really wrong, said Leana Wen, MD, the former Baltimore health commissioner and Washington Post contributing columnist and CNN medical analyst. There are unintended consequences that can endanger people and sew distrust in the CDC.
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