Public Health Politicization

Discussions revolve around debates on the validity of public health claims, expert recommendations, and authorities like the CDC and WHO, often accusing them of being politicized or agenda-driven in pandemic contexts.

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cmxch Dec 10, 2025 View on HN

Handwaving “public health” doesn’t make it so.

nxm Oct 31, 2023 View on HN

Another “It’s a public health crisis” call as a way to push agenda

_y5hn Mar 20, 2020 View on HN

I prefer informed stance, like from pandemic health experts.

pmiller2 Apr 23, 2020 View on HN

This has what to do with their medical and public health recommendations?

Gibbon1 Jun 10, 2021 View on HN

That's public heath in a nutshell.

wahnfrieden Jul 8, 2022 View on HN

one is a public health issueyou’re posting nonsense btw

an_opabinia Jul 22, 2021 View on HN

Public health emergencies exceed the limitations of your contrarianism.

ImaCake Jan 14, 2023 View on HN

This is such a frustrating comment to read. There is plenty of debate in public health about what is and isn’t appropriate. A lot of effort is put into communicating the often confusing and oblique conclusions of biology in such a way that people will understand and also be willing to take actions that will help themselves. Covid was, predictably, a massive defeat for public health.Also, you may have noticed that there are not really any restrictions despite covid still being around. There ar

goodoldneon Dec 15, 2021 View on HN

Stop politicizing public health.

JabavuAdams May 8, 2009 View on HN

We're discussing this in the context of public health.