Happy Mon!☀️Instead of arguing about lockdown (it’s been a harsh year), we need to prepare for future pandemics: stop spillover of viruses from animals to humans, ⬆️ vaccine manufacturing capacity globally & prepare to move from sequencing to jabs in arms within a few months.
Lockdowns have been a last resort measure to keep health services from collapsing. No one wants restrictions given the high social & economic cost they carry. So how do we prepare for future pandemics so we don't need lockdown/release cycles, like they've been used in the West?
We need to reduce: number of people who are susceptible to a new pathogen (which leads to exponential growth) & hospitalizations/severe disease (which strains health services). Invest in science for solutions to both of these. We need rapid diagnostics, vaccines, & therapeutics.
And while it's been a truly horrible year for many people, there must be some good to emerge in how we shape our societies & communities. On a silly personal level, I never thought I (a Miami girl) would sit outside happily in the freezing snow having tea with a friend.
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