| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | international
USA. How the Pandemic Defeated America - A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.
USA. How the Pandemic Defeated America - A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.
(...) Today, the U.S. spends just 2.5 percent of its gigantic health-care budget on public health. Underfunded health departments were already struggling to deal with opioid addiction, climbing obesity rates, contaminated water, and easily preventable diseases. Last year saw the most measles cases since 1992. In 2018, the U.S. had 115,000 cases of syphilis and 580,000 cases of gonorrhea—numbers not seen in almost three decades. It has 1.7 million cases of chlamydia, the highest number ever recorded. (The Atlantic, September Issue, 04.08.2020)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191