But the way that you get collective health around infectious disease is that you have to make medication free at the point of service to as many people as possible, the second it starts getting paid for, the people who can pay for it get more protection, and for those who can't, the virus pulls amongst them, and that's kind of a major dynamic happening right now between the two camps, of which I think Dr. Wen is a prime example.

Steven Thrasher

Stephen William Thrasher is an American writer and editor who is currently the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg Chair of social justice in reporting and an assistant professor of journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in 2019. His journalism has appeared in The Village Voice, The Guardian, and The New York Times. He is a Contributing Editor for BuzzFeed. He was the recipient of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Journalist of the Year award 2012, and the Al Neuharth Award for Innovation in Investigative Journalism 2015.

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