preventing the next pandemic

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/hea ... 822911007/

Now, on the fourth anniversary of that fateful time, Lipkin and his team at the Mailman School of Public Health are among a number of groups worldwide working to prevent the next global pandemic.

They have developed a system for quickly analyzing viruses, bacteria and fungi ‒ known and unknown ‒ found in patients.

If hospitals in Wuhan, China, had had this system in late 2019 when the first patients started appearing with respiratory symptoms, they could have analyzed blood or the gunk patients were coughing up and within hours realized they were dealing with something new and dangerous.

More:Five takeaways from the WHO's report on the origins of the pandemic

"This method, these assays are so simple to use and so inexpensive that you could do continuous surveillance in clinics, looking at blood, looking at sewage, looking at respiratory disease, and would have picked it up and known there was something novel circulating immediately," Lipkin said.

"It would actually give us what I like to describe as a global immune system."

[Trick]

”Preventing the next pandemic” - is it a pandemic if it never occurs ?
Semantics I guess

[wayne hansen]

Didn’t Obama set up something like that and Trump dismantle it

[origami_itto]

Can't let anybody from the other team actual establish anything of lasting benefit to society, might make them look good and hurt your chances of re-election.

[windwalker]

It might help if the US stopped promoting and funding the research that most likely caused the last pandemic "yet to be proven categorically"
gain of function studies It says it doesn't do..

the most likely source...

Regardless of administration, the face of those in power.

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Can't let anybody from the other team actual establish anything of lasting benefit to society, might make them look good and hurt your chances of re-election.

make some progress, find a way to stop it, blame the other side, try to get re-elected. profit. rinse lather repeat. nobody will ever catch on to your long con.

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i guess sometimes if it's dead simple enough, both sides can try to trumpet their success or more rarely, "bipartisan cooperation"

[Trick]

isnt the WHO striving to have the worldwide control of implementing pandemic prevention measures , recently having a succsessful meeting about this ？
So doesnt matter whos in the whitehouse ?

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really hope so

[Steve James]

Can't prevent it if the people in charge of prevention call it a hoax. It won't matter where it comes from.