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Public Health Lessons Learned from COVID-19

WCIA-TV News (Champaign, Illinois; May 31) – Dr. Becky Smith, professor of epidemiology, looks back at the five-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and says her biggest takeaway was the erosion of trust between public health officials and the general public. “There were a lot of miscommunications that were made early on, especially with,” Smith said.

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