The Health 202: Feds supercharged public health. Now the challenge is wisely spending it. Dan Diamond After pleading poverty for years, public health has collected a coronavirus-related windfall.
Now officials have a new challenge: responsibly spend the money while convincing Congress to set aside funds for future priorities too. I m worried that we will think this is the end of investing in public health, said Dara Lieberman, director of government relations at Trust for America s Health, an organization dedicated to boosting community health. Hundreds of billions of dollars flowed into public health in 2020. Lawmakers greenlit historic stimulus packages in the rush to beat back the pandemic.
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May 18, 2021
There is an important distinction between prediction and warning. No one can now predict how the current fighting between Israel and the Palestinians will end, or if it will even pause for a prolonged period – a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas can easily become the prelude to a new low-level, sporadic war of attrition or Intifada. History teaches all too well that any form of new agreement can become the prelude to new acts of political extremism and polarization – to acquiring new arms and defenses, taking new security measures, and creating forms of resistance and terrorism.
The latest rounds of Israeli and Palestinian violence have already reached levels where they are a further barrier to any real and lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel has reported that more than 3,400 Hamas rockets had been fired at Israel in the week ending on May 17