Zika is a warning to the US public health system to stop rushing from fire to fire
Published by Quartz on April 18, 2016
Zika exposed a public health system built to react, not to prevent. Constantly shifting funds from one emergency to the next leaves communities vulnerable to predictable threats like mosquito-borne disease. Sustainable investment in public health infrastructure, not crisis-driven spending, is the only way to stop repeating the same failures.