Epidemics and Pandemics
We're less than a month past the inauguration of Biden and just over a month away from the anniversary of Michigan's first lockdown when I started working from home. I've found myself reflecting on the factors that could have caused and/or mitigated the disaster.
At the beginning of 2018, the CDC made 80% cuts to it's efforts to prevent global disease outbreaks and by the beginning of 2020 we were experiencing a 'once in a century' pandemic.
Before 2018, the world had addressed multiple epidemics of ebola, SARS, MERS, swine and avian flu without them going global and with a fraction of the death tolls of covid-19.
I don't have answers, but I've been wondering how things would have changed had the CDC remained at full funding after 2018. Would we have been able to contain the virus to Wuhan? If so, what does that say about American power/influence that it is by our effort that pandemics are prevented or accelerated.
At the beginning of 2018, the CDC made 80% cuts to it's efforts to prevent global disease outbreaks and by the beginning of 2020 we were experiencing a 'once in a century' pandemic.
Before 2018, the world had addressed multiple epidemics of ebola, SARS, MERS, swine and avian flu without them going global and with a fraction of the death tolls of covid-19.
I don't have answers, but I've been wondering how things would have changed had the CDC remained at full funding after 2018. Would we have been able to contain the virus to Wuhan? If so, what does that say about American power/influence that it is by our effort that pandemics are prevented or accelerated.
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