flu-rsv-winter-surge.html">The "tripledemic" is surging, there’s a medicine shortage, zero-covid-xi-jinping.html">China has ended its “zero COVID” policy, and public health institutions are under attack from activists and policy makers. 

We speak with Gregg Gonsalves, The Nation’s public health correspondent, co-director of the Global Health Justice Partnership, and associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health about what it all means for our ability to act now, and in future public health crises.