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Viewpoints: US Unprepared For Next Pandemic; Nursing Shortage At Dangerous Levels

Editorial writers delve into these public health issues and more.

Even if the next pandemic is years off, it鈥檚 likely we have only a few months to lay the groundwork to prepare for it. So what should be done? (Craig Spencer, 10/24)

The Government Affairs Committee of the American Nurses Association predicts that the United States will need to produce more than 1聽million additional nurses to fill both new nursing jobs and replace the ever-increasing wave of retiring nurses. (Dr. David Weill, 10/24)

The politicization of the pandemic has eroded public confidence in vaccines, which are among our greatest public health tools. This tragic response聽pertains primarily to the COVID-19 vaccines, but could soon extend beyond it. (Dr. Marc Siegel, 10/24)

Help me understand why in this world we live in, we still have to fight for the right of people with disabilities to live in a world that is inclusive. (Gina Norris, 10/23)

More than 6.5 million Americans 65 and older live with Alzheimer鈥檚. Here in Texas, there are more than 400,000. Alzheimer鈥檚 is the seventh leading cause of death in Texas and across the nation, according to the State Department of Health and Human Services. (Eddie Bernice Johnson, 10/22)

Like so many other people admitted to the ICU during the pandemic, my dad was left to endure critical illness without those he loved the most. As I look back on two-plus years of flawed Covid-19 policies, the willful decision to separate families from their dying loved ones was the most inhumane. (Neel Vahil, 10/24)

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