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Professor Silverman Warns 'No Silver Bullet' for the Pandemic
11/17/2020
The promising results for two competing Covid-19 vaccines are raising hopes, but there is no silver bullet for the pandemic, according to IU McKinney Professor Ross D. Silverman, interviewed for an article in The New Republic.
“This is not a silver bullet for the pandemic,” Silverman said. “We’re seeing exponential rise in the number of cases; we’re seeing hospitals getting not only overwhelmed but also cutting back on the elective procedures again, which means that their economic situation is more vulnerable.”
Professor Silverman warned the systems that have been created to deliver vaccines weren’t created with this type of vaccine in circulation and that a number of structural challenges exist.
“This is going to require ongoing support. As we turn to 2021, everybody’s going to have to start thinking about the next state and local public health budgets,” Professor Silverman said.
Professor Silverman is Professor Public Health and Law at IU McKinney and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI. His research interests include legal, ethical and policy issues in public health and medicine, professional school admissions, interdisciplinary curriculum development, medical humanities, human rights, and patient safety.
