COVID-19 by Debora MacKenzie

Author:Debora MacKenzie [MacKenzie, Debora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2020-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

A flu pandemic is coming. That’s what flu does. Maybe it will be fairly mild, like in 2009—but tell that to the people who lost loved ones then, and there were plenty. Maybe it will be H7N9, packing the same 40 percent death rate it has now. Maybe it will be a total surprise, something brewing on a giant hog farm or in a backyard flock of chickens swapping viruses with the wildlife. But it’s coming.

Are we prepared? No. As we will see in the next chapter, we can’t make flu vaccine fast enough, in large enough quantities for a flu pandemic. And although flu is the one virus for which we have effective antiviral drugs, it isn’t clear we have enough of those either.

If we’re not ready for the pandemic we can see coming, how can we be ready for the ones we don’t?

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