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Yes mRNA gives us some good weapons against future viruses. More important than that would be to react quicker when a new pandemic looms. Make sure that all air
by _ph_ 5y ago
Yes mRNA gives us some good weapons against future viruses. More important than that would be to react quicker when a new pandemic looms. Make sure that all air travel is checked (the US banned travel from China, while infected people would arrive from Europe...), be quick with local lockdowns while the virus isn't spread around the country. Especially, watch out early for local outbreaks.
- pbourke 5y agoAlso improvements to public health information systems. It seems like there are a lot of people employed in public health in the US across the local, state and federal levels and those people are not served by good systems. The fact that for most of the pandemic, a volunteer effort run by The Atlantic magazine was better at reporting disease statistics than the CDC is a flashing red sign. My own county’s system seemed designed for tracing and reporting a handful of cases per week for TB outbreaks or the like and was knocked over when the COVID surges happened.
- undersuit 5y ago>(the US banned travel from China, while infected people would arrive from Europe...) It's worse than that. We banned some non-citizens from entering the US if they had been in China, we did not ban travel from China.