The Trump administration defunded the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission in 2017. But COVID-19's devastating impact in border cities proves the need for Congress or the Biden administration to reestablish the commission is more clear than ever.
looking to Mexico City for resources, authority and policy guidance. The opposite is true of U.S. states, who dominate health policy and are accustomed to taking the initiative in many areas of health services.
to address this administrative challenge, encouraging both national and state agencies to share information and other resources to strengthen binational epidemiological response. It also advanced cross-boundary laboratory cooperation, recommending that laboratory findings of reportable conditions should be routinely communicated to appropriate health officials where the tested individual resides, with a focus on the role of state health agencies in the transmission of this information.
Whether a vigorous, well-funded and fully fleshed USMBHC would have made a substantial difference in how COVID-19 was handled at the border will never be known; unfortunately, it never had that chance, even after the many lessons learned from its experience with cross-border infectious disease after its formation in 2000.
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