Diagnosis Pan(dem)ic

Dr. Friedrich Pürner knows what he's talking about. As head of a public health department, he experienced the first two waves of coronavirus at a hotspot of events. His conclusion: The fact that coronavirus became a crisis of such magnitude is not primarily due to the dangerousness of the virus, but to the errors in our healthcare system. The intertwining of politics and medicine sometimes has fatal consequences that long went unnoticed. Corona acts like a magnifying glass, because we are really feeling these effects for the first time during the crisis. Even if we get the current pandemic under control, the next one may push public health services even more clearly to their limits. Are we prepared for this? No, says the public health officer. We finally need to address the structural problems, eliminate shortcomings, and set quality standards to be able to meet future challenges.


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