The Lab You've Never Seen but Definitely Need

If public health had a Batcave, it would be the public health laboratory.

These labs don’t have capes or cool gadgets (well, unless you count high-throughput genome sequencers as cool, which is fair), but they’re some of our health system’s most important and overlooked parts. They quietly test, track, and warn us about everything from tainted potato salad to new COVID variants. You probably don’t think about them much. That’…