Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?
“Humanity is now in the midst of its fastest-ever period of change,” writes Ed Yong in the July/August issue of The Atlantic. Urbanization and globalization mean pathogens can spread and become drug-resistant more quickly than ever.
Yong joins executive editor Matt Thompson and fellow science writer Sarah Zhang to discuss what vulnerabilities exist a century after the 1918 pandemic, and how our sharpest risks might be societal and psychological.
Links
- “The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready?” (Ed Yong, July/August 2018 Issue)
- “VIDEO: Is Trump Ready for a Global Outbreak?” (Ed Yong…
The skinny
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