not prepared --- As an infectious disease scientist I can assure that the scientific community in the infectious disease field knew this could happen at any time. I remember being in a seminar at Duke university about 5 months before the COVID emerged, one of the top level infectious disease scientists in US did a presentation on how the different species of livestock animals raised together in farms in some countries can cause the next pandemic. Scientists can educate the public and the authorities but every one has a responsibility to take actions.

Source author: Lakmini Premadasa lakminisurangika@gmail.com