An article by Ed Yong published in The Atlantic provides an excellent look at what pandemic preparations looked like in 2018, before there was an active epidemic/pandemic situation like What are coronaviruses and how do we develop new treatments? Understanding SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 and moreCOVID-19 and provides a good look at the international infrastructure that’s in place to deal with the current outbreak.
Yong writes: “Last year, with the centennial of the 1918 flu looming, I started looking into whether America is prepared for the next pandemic. I fully expected that the answer would be no. What I found, after talking with dozens of experts, was more complicated—reassuring in some ways, but even more worrying than I’d imagined in others.”
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