‘Failure of an American ideology’: why Covid has an outsized impact on the US

As the US records 1 million Covid deaths, experts note underinvestment in long-term care, primary care and public health all contributed to the toll

David Rosner continually talks to colleagues who are distraught about the American response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

When you are in a school of public health and a public health environment, people really feel when they are failing," said Rosner, who studies public health and social history at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.