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When public health interventions may worsen the problems they aim to solve

Our homeless encampment has a hepatitis A outbreak and the city wants me to recommend clearing it but that will just scatter infected people around the county with no way to track them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The fix your city wants would only make the problem harder to contain.

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