In early December 2019, I sat in a conference room at the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, listening to its director, Dr. Robert Redfield, answer a question: Is America ready for another major infectious disease like Ebola or the Zika virus?
Redfield s response reiterated what most public health experts knew, but coming from him, it was jarring. It’s not a secret,” he said. “Our nation is not prepared for a flu pandemic.”
He was certain such a pandemic would one day arrive, and although he couldn t foresee when, he knew it would be bad: “It’s going to be a huge loss of life.”
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