Even worse was his defunding of PREDICT (started in 2009 and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, and it worked with teams in 31 countries,

Even worse was his defunding of PREDICT (started in 2009 and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, and it worked with teams in 31 countries, including China. It was just one part of an emerging global network for infectious-disease surveillance.) This cost a trivial $20M per year and funded the woman listed below among others. Of note, in her team's research they have found dozens of bat-borne coronaviruses in the same family as SARS. This did not sneak up on us; we already have MERS, SARS and Ebola. We should have been (and continuing) spending billions as a species on this but everyone has their head in the sand. 1-[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-woman-hunted-down-viruses-from-sars-to-the-new-coronavirus1/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-wo...]