Sure, that’s a fair point. And it’s the perfect argument for where the US did end up focusing a lot of research and aid, namely on Ebola. Another SARS or MERS o

Sure, that’s a fair point. And it’s the perfect argument for where the US did end up focusing a lot of research and aid, namely on Ebola. Another SARS or MERS outbreak would likely originate in a developed country with a track record of successfully eradicating that type of coronavirus, whereas Ebola is a problem for a part of the world that is much less developed and ill-equipped to handle such a crisis. It’s obvious now that we should have invested more into all pandemic risks including coronaviruses, but it’s an exaggeration to imply that the US wasn’t doing anything at all or that the priorities of US-funded research and aid were poorly chosen based on what was known at the time.