The Ills of the Government Shutdown

Published in The New Yorker on October 10, 2013

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-ills-of-the-government-shutdown

When the government shuts down, public health doesn’t—and the risks don’t pause. Furloughed inspectors and sidelined disease detectives leave outbreaks harder to detect and contain, just as antibiotic-resistant infections are becoming more dangerous. The result is a quieter but very real erosion of the systems that keep food, medicine, and communities safe.