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This ignores the fact that municipalities that eliminated water fluoridation saw surging demand for dental services, which exacerbated pre-existing shortages and access barriers to dental care. It's not either/or, it's BOTH/AND.

It’s also a great illustration of “MD brain” and why having an MD is insufficient (and unnecessary, though sometimes beneficial) for doing good public health policy.

6/ Finally, we conclude with reflections on the current juncture that we face, and the role of public health in either upholding, or working to abolish, mass criminalization and incarceration in the United States.

5/ We then document how the vaccine rollout left incarcerated people behind and put them directly and indirectly at increased risk of preventable sickness and death. We summarize ways that police and policing likely exacerbated the pandemic in the most vulnerable communities.

4/ Next, we discuss immediate strategies that could have been taken to prevent unnecessary sickness and death in the criminal legal system and review some of the ineffective and inhumane strategies that were taken instead.

3/ We then document the U.S. response to the pandemic in jails and prisons, from initial warnings to the tragic consequences of inaction.

2/ First, we introduce three ways of thinking about mass incarceration as a racialized system of state violence that structures population health. Second, we review the public health crisis that was already a consequence of mass incarceration before the pandemic.