China and Asia can take leadership for sure, but it doesn’t mean that the US / the west shouldn’t. Viruses do not care about passports as long as the world is

China and Asia can take leadership for sure, but it doesn’t mean that the US / the west shouldn’t. Viruses do not care about passports as long as the world is connected it’s everyone’s problem. The US and the west had good candidates for SARS and MERS vaccines overall only a single team continued to work on them the Oxford one and that’s mostly because Saudi Arabia was still interested in funding it. SARS should’ve been a wake up call and if it wasn’t enough then MERS less then a decade later should’ve been an indication that SARS wasn’t a black swan event. We had two examples within an extremely short time frame of how coronaviruses can mutate to become as deadly or even more deadly than pandemic causing influenza strains and for the most part the western world decided it’s not a priority.