Opinion: Because the public health system mostly operates in the background, it rarely gets the attention, or funding, it deserves — until there's a crisis.
Pedro Rivera waits with other volunteers in District Heights, Md. to hand out food. He's wearing a mask that reads,"This too shall pass."Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration and now vice dean at the school of public health at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, distinguishes the health care system from the public health system as"the difference between taking care of patients with COVID and preventing people from getting COVID in the first place."
"It's pretty invisible" if the public health system is working well, said Sharfstein, who also once served as Maryland's state health secretary."It's the dog-that-doesn't-bark agency."
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