Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg: Congressional Testimony
Tracy Beth Høeg, M.D., Ph.D. Epidemiologist and Public Health Expert; Private Practice Physician
Dr Høeg testified to congress about how COVID-19 relatively spares children but how this generation has suffered an incredible amount during the pandemic and, unfortunately, the effects of this will likely travel with them for the rest of their lives.
She went on to talk about on how prolonged school closures have led to learning loss, isolation, obesity and mental health problems in children disproportionately affecting socioeconomically disadvantaged children. She additionally spoke about how United States’ single-minded, myopic approach to the pandemic has created a myriad of public health problems for children beyond that of COVID-19 and how the country needs to perform a risk-benefit analysis as well as good scientific studies of the interventions we imposed upon children to mitigate one disease has created numerous additional and avoidable public health crises in our youth.
