GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY REQUIRES MEDICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN EVERY COUNTRY—MAJOR INDUSTRIAL NATIONS MUST COLLABORATE NOW!

GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY REQUIRES MEDICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN EVERY COUNTRY—MAJOR INDUSTRIAL NATIONS MUST COLLABORATE NOW!

By the Shiller Institute

The only way that the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic can be stopped, is by re-thinking the solution. We must have modern health care systems in every country. This means infrastructure for public health, and for medical care delivery at modern standards, to all populations. One model for this is the U.S. Hill-Burton Act (“Hospital Survey and Construction Act of 1946,”) whose principle was to state how many hospital beds per 1,000 residents must be in each locality (at that time, 4.5), and deploy accordingly to build them, including modern equipment and staff.

Look at instances of our ability to do this today. The 1,000-bed Huoshenshan hospital was built in 12 days in Wuhan in 2020. In the U.S., multiple field hospitals were built in record time last Spring by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. We must do this simultaneously around the world.

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