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When public health decisions require choosing between competing harms

I have been the state epidemiologist for eight years and I just signed off on closing schools again knowing it will destroy some of these kids and their families but the modeling says we have no choice.

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You have to make a call that helps some people and hurts others, and there's no way to avoid the harm.

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