The emergency may be over, but there are valuable lessons to be learned
These efforts weren’t perfect. Testing—especially the at-home kind—wasn’t possible until the end of 2020, almost a year into the pandemic, and not everyone who needed it could access the Test to Treat program at pharmacies because of transportation and other issues. Still, such measures were essential for containing COVID-19, and working out challenges will be important to ensure they will be even more effective in future responses.
Not every pandemic measure is necessary in non-emergency times, but public-health experts now see some of these changes as indispensable. One is a robust telehealth system covered by insurers so more people can access care if even if they can’t physically see a health-care professional. Another is maintaining a strong research community working on next-generation vaccines and treatments that could be more effective and more quickly distributed when—not if—another pandemic strikes.
Hopefully, the U.S.’s response to the next outbreak will be more streamlined, given the experience the country now has. The public is now more educated about how their behaviors can control the spread of a virus, through high-quality masking, regular testing, and isolation when symptomatic. And legislators have seen firsthand how funding for vaccines and treatments can pay off.
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