“It’s now bordering on malpractice to care for a patient without using AI”—Tom Frieden on resetting prevention, primary care, and US mistakes in covid

BiographyTom Frieden is an internist and infectious disease physician who served as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 to 2017. He was previously New York City’s health commissioner and is now president and chief executive of Resolve to Save Lives, a non-profit global health organisation. His new book, The Formula for Better Health,1 is published by MIT Press.You’ve described poor communication as the deadliest covid-19 mistake. In what sense?Certainly for the US, the most deadly error was poor communication during the first Trump administration. In 2020 there was chaotic communication, denial, and the silencing of the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], which was not allowed to speak after it provided fact based, clear information. And ev