Return to Normal Hesitancy: Podcast with Monica Gandhi and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Jun 10, 2021 · 40m

Harm reduction, as so clearly described by our guest Monica Gandhi on this podcast, began as a public health approach that guided management of HIV. Harm reduction represented an alternative to an abstinence-only approach, which clearly did not work. In the harm reduction model, you acknowledge that people will take some risks, and that the goal is to decrease risk, not eliminate it.

And yet, here we are with a fear-not-facts approach to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some are advocating for the use of masks in schools, hospitals, and nursing homes in perpetuity. As in, forever. Sounds eerily like an…