“The whole epidemiological community has been warning everybody for the past 10 or 15 years that it wasn’t a question of whether we were going to have a pandemic like this. It was simply when. It’s really hard to get people to listen. I mean, Trump pushed out the admiral on the National Security Council, who was the only person at that level who’s responsible for pandemic defense. With him went his entire downline of employees and staff and relationships. And then Trump removed the [early warning] funding for countries around the world.”
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The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming | WIRED
Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who warned of pandemic in 2006, explains how one stupid person (trumpf) fucked up our chance to be ready for this pandemic.
