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Gregg Gonsalves is Assistant Professor in Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health and co-directs Yale’s Global Health Justice Partnership and its Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency. He has worked with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, the Treatment Action Group, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa.
The right response to COVID-19 is to rebuild our economy from the ground up, putting people to work in a massive jobs program to secure the public health of all.
Claims that the cure is worse than the disease rely on a false tradeoff between human needs and the economy.
Decades of neoliberal austerity will make it harder to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. We must rebuild our social safety net and forge a New Deal for public health.
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