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Medical technologies have been central to US pandemic response – but social behaviors matter just as much

  • Written by Eyal Oren, Professor of Epidemiology, San Diego State University
imageCOVID-19 vaccines and treatments aren't societal silver bullets when health disparities persist.Michael Nagle/Xinhua via Getty Images

Before COVID-19, there was tuberculosis. Twentieth century British physician Thomas McKeown controversially proposed that the sharp declines in infectious disease death rates in the late 1900s were due to improved...

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