{"id":8482,"date":"2025-04-22T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8482"},"modified":"2025-04-22T22:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T02:00:04","slug":"is-public-health-really-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/is-public-health-really-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Public Health Really Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local podcaster Daniella Barreto called her latest project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publichealthisdead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Public Health Is Dead<\/em><\/a> to capture her frustration with how leaders handled the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seemed like all of these things we\u2019re taught in school, like prevention being key and using evidence to make decisions, was thrown out the window,\u201d Barreto told The Tyee. \u201cMask mandates were being taken away, people were increasingly getting long COVID, and I decided I needed to do something because people were not getting the information they needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Launching the podcast in November 2024, Barreto used her background in public health, with a master of science in population public health from the University of British Columbia and a bachelor of science in health science from Simon Fraser University, to help explain what went wrong. So far she\u2019s released five episodes and has many more in the works. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local podcaster Daniella Barreto called her latest project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publichealthisdead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Public Health Is Dead<\/em><\/a> to capture her frustration with how leaders handled the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seemed like all of these things we\u2019re taught in school, like prevention being key and using evidence to make decisions, was thrown out the window,\u201d Barreto told The Tyee. \u201cMask mandates were being taken away, people were increasingly getting long COVID, and I decided I needed to do something because people were not getting the information they needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Launching the podcast in November 2024, Barreto used her background in public health, with a master of science in population public health from the University of British Columbia and a bachelor of science in health science from Simon Fraser University, to help explain what went wrong. So far she\u2019s released five episodes and has many more in the works. <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/is-public-health-really-dead\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Public Health Really Dead?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83,96,18,23,44,11,97,309,14,143,121],"class_list":["post-8482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitals","tag-indoor-air-quality","tag-long-covid","tag-pandemic-response","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-universal-masking","tag-vancouver","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8484,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8482\/revisions\/8484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}