We Must Prevent the Next Pandemic, Not Build Perfect Conditions for It (Commentary)

We Must Prevent the Next Pandemic, Not Build Perfect Conditions for It (Commentary)

By Chris Walzer How the world reacted to the recent disease outbreaks tells us more about inequity than about epidemiology, a new op-ed argues. Beside the lopsided coverage of affected populations, both outbreaks point to the fact that these events are not isolated biological accidents, but predictable consequences of the ecological, economic, and political systems we have built. “The first signal of the next outbreak will not come from a high-…