We must take action now to fight off the coronavirus and prepare for the next one.
on the Arabian Peninsula. Yet this variant is packing a vicious punch and unlike SARS or MERS, is spreading far and wide, acting like an influenza virus in terms of transmission between people, quickly and efficiently traveling through the air. Viruses don’t change when crossing political borders, so we can expect this one to continue behaving as it did in China. Nothing any government can do will effectively stop its spread.
The problem is that we don’t prepare to defend against infectious diseases the way we do other threats to national security. Would we consider going to war andordering aircraft carriers or other weapon systems for the fight? Yet that is how we often deal with vaccines and drug treatments for diseases of epidemic potential. We are woefully underprepared because of a lack of investment and public will.
It is not just the prospect of any of us getting sick or dying. Second and third-order effects can be devastating both toand personal wellbeing. With industrial supply chains and food production largely globalized, we are always at the mercy of the chain’s weakest link.
So, how do we prepare for a possible pandemic? First, stop messaging that this a low risk situation for the U.S. – as if we somehow have an impenetrable border to viruses. Instituting global travel restrictions will only slightly slow the spread of coronavirus. The microbial earthquake at its core has already happened. We can’t fix all the years of neglect in preparing for priority diseases in time for this outbreak.
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