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Opinion: Public Health Is Always Political, Coronavirus Is No Exception
When their other policies are unpopular or failing, epidemics present a chance for governments to regain support through a performance of competency and to further restrictive rightwing agendas, argues junior doctor Jo Sutton-Klein.