The Prophets: D.A. Henderson | The Free Press

In 2006, ten years before his death at the age of 87, the legendary epidemiologist D.A. Henderson laid out a plan for how public health officials should respond to a major influenza pandemic. It was published in a small journal that focused mainly on bioterrorism and was quickly forgotten.

As it turns out, that paper, titled Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza, was Henderson s prescient bequest to the future. If we had followed his advice, our country indeed, our world could have avoided its disastrous response to Covid. 

This month marks the four-year anniversary of lockdowns on a global scale. And though the pandemic has passed, its consequences live on. The lockdowns embraced by the U.S. public-health establishment meant that millions of young people had their education and social development disrupted, or left school for good. Mental health problems rose substantially. So did incidents of domestic violence and overdose deaths.

It didn t have to be that way. 

via www.thefp.com