2001: anthrax
2003: SARS
2009: H1N1
2014: Ebola
2015: Zika
2020: Covid
This pandemic is historic, but health security threats are alarmingly common. We must break the reactive cycle of panic and neglect and prepare our public health and medical systems for the next threat.
This is just pure bad faith.
It's like arguing against seatbelt laws by saying traffic deaths are lower than they used to be, so why are we still telling people to buckle up?
"Even though we had been warned by experts & were well-positioned to act, nobody paid attention." — Doctors & scientists across the U.S. feel angry & betrayed by the country's disastrously slow response to the #Covid19 pandemic, @megkesh reports. https://t.co/G35f1chfhS
The exit strategy for the #Covid19 pandemic is vaccine for the world. Getting there is going to take an approach never before taken; build production capacity now, make vaccine now, says @CEPIvaccines CEO @DrRHatchett. https://t.co/ErLqQDjUsR
The US Treasury market is the foundation of the global financial system. In the COVID-19 crisis it was initially a safe haven.
On 9 March 2020 it started behaving very oddly.
Andreas Schrimpf @HyunSongShin Vladyslav Sushko investigate.
https://t.co/8tW2qCeylH
.@Gr8BosFoodBank saw a nearly 50% increase in demand for its help in March 2020 over March 2019.
If it's within your power to help a food bank in these very difficult times, please do.