🧵As an emergency physician during the H1N1 pandemic, I know how important ID physicians are to a coordinated public health response. Right now, our nation is seeing a startling shortage of these experts, endangering our nation’s overall public health and pandemic preparedness.
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Today in @statnews, I’m bringing my physician experience to the table with commonsense reforms that can help grow our nation’s public health workforce, improve patient care, and enhance pandemic preparedness. statnews.com/2023/11/22/inf…
I’m also calling for robust investments in programs that will help encourage more medical students to pursue careers in the infectious disease specialty so that we can start building the public health workforce we need now.