As an undergrad interested in epidemiology, in 2018, I did a Viral Ecology project about “the next big one”, and my 21 year old self spitballed that it would likely be a coronavirus or hantavirus, transmitted from bats, likely in Southeast Asia, possibly in a live wet market.
https://twitter.com/seananmcguire/status/1351559449798864899
I have it posted online in 2018. The point isn’t that I was exceptional (I wasn’t), it was that science knew exactly what was coming and where to look, but no one listened. One of the first frightening actions of the Trump Admin that was largely overlooked was the dismantling of-
-the pandemic surveillance and preparedness systems in the United States.
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All this carnage, all this death, all this economic fallout? Scientists knew it was coming and knew ways to prevent it, ways to contain it, ways to study and manage it, and they were road blocked at every possible intersection.
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