Here's what isn't being said about #coronavirus: for 15 years the United States ran a research program called PREDICT to identify & stop pandemics. It was shut down in October.
PREDICT was inspired by the 2005 H5N1 bird flu scare & found more than a thousand new viruses 🦠
The administrations of George W. Bush & Barack Obama provided robust funding for PREDICT, but things changed in 2017, according to Dennis Carroll, who helped design the program.
