UNC Health infectious disease expert David Wohl on the respiratory virus season and public health
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Infectious diseases professor Dr. David Wohl (Screengrab from Newsline interview)
Ever since the world was overtaken by the COVID-19 pandemic, public health policy and vaccine policy have been front and center in the national political debate. And tragically, despite a longstanding and overwhelming consensus among public health experts across the globe about the efficacy of vaccines and their vital importance in protecting human health and wellbeing, a small group of naysayers and conspiracy theorists have managed to hijack the debate and, in some instances, ascend to positions of power and influence.
And right now, this phenomenon is in full bloom in the United States as the Trump administration, under the leadership of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is moving aggressively to roll back decades of progress in combating disease by discouraging vaccines and slashing funding for research. Fortunately, an array of gifted and well-informed experts continues to speak the truth on these important subjects, and recently we caught up with one of them, UNC Professor of Medicine and infectious disease expert, Dr. David Wohl.
In Part One of our recent conversation, we discussed some of the controversies roiling the world of public health and vaccine policy right now, as well as some of Dr. Wohl’s recommendations for keeping yourself and your family properly vaccinated. In Part Two of our chat, we continued our discussion of some of the current policy debates, as well as Wohl’s deep concerns about the ongoing federal government disinvestments in health research.
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