Many public health issues can be viewed as balanced on the legs of a three-legged stool.
The first leg is the work of research scientists and medical practitioners making discoveries in their laboratories and clinics.
The second leg is the communication of these findings both to health care professionals through professional media and to the public via popular media. This leg would be reinforced, as needed, by the adoption of appropriate statues and regulations.
The third leg is the adoption of these findings by willing public. This three legged stool has supported many public health campaigns, including smallpox polio and AIDS. But in the case of COVID-19, it appears that some vaunted "leaders" have taken a saw to at least one and even two legs of this three legged stool, with this result!
Unfortunately it hasn't been an "easy fall" for hundreds of thousands of Americans and many more throughout the world who have succumbed to COVID-19.
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