Could the media stop avoiding public health, please?
Politicians are ignoring the greatest public health crisis in a century, and journalists are letting them.
Richard J. Tofel
Richard J. Tofel is the former president of ProPublica, an instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a member of Harvard Public Health’s advisory board.
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