The response to the COVID-19 pandemic must be coherent and long-term. The risk is of taking a truncated approach, focusing only on short-term needs and interests, and pitting health safety and CSU against each other.
Responding adequately to pandemics is a key function of healthcare systems. So it’s not a question of pitting them against each other, and choosing between one or the other (particularly in terms of budgetary trade-offs).
