Over the past century, as globalization accelerated, viral epidemics have become a serious threat to humanity.
These epidemics are becoming recurrent, too, and emerging more quickly.
Now the virus has traveled, as did previous epidemics.
Such epidemics will occur again-perhaps as soon as next year.
The University of Minnesota's Michael Osterholm, an expert in fighting the flu virus, believes that scientists should equate battling deadly epidemics with the Manhattan Project-this time, to save lives.
No one wishes for it, but only a global epidemic of extreme gravity could launch the necessary research and change political behavior.
The threat, in any case, is more serious and more immediate than global warming-but will a real threat arouse less fear than a theoretical one?
https://www.city-journal.org/viral-epidemics-coronavirus
These epidemics are becoming recurrent, too, and emerging more quickly.
Now the virus has traveled, as did previous epidemics.
Such epidemics will occur again-perhaps as soon as next year.
The University of Minnesota's Michael Osterholm, an expert in fighting the flu virus, believes that scientists should equate battling deadly epidemics with the Manhattan Project-this time, to save lives.
No one wishes for it, but only a global epidemic of extreme gravity could launch the necessary research and change political behavior.
The threat, in any case, is more serious and more immediate than global warming-but will a real threat arouse less fear than a theoretical one?
https://www.city-journal.org/viral-epidemics-coronavirus
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