America Out Loud PULSE

America Out Loud PULSE


Public health authority Donald “D. A.” Henderson and why we managed the COVID Pandemic opposite to his principles and failed

April 21, 2024

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Harvey Risch – Donald "D. A." Henderson was the most important public health pandemic scientist of the 20th century. He laid out principles for managing respiratory virus pandemics in 2006, based on his lifetime career of successfully working to end the scourge of smallpox. Yet when the Covid pandemic hit, our public health institutions managed the pandemic largely opposite to what Henderson had established...