‘No One Is Safe, Until Everyone Is Safe’

‘No One Is Safe, Until Everyone Is Safe’
Marsican bear, a typical species of central Italy. A mother bear with her cubs walks among the vegetation in its natural habitat, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Gennaro Leonardi Photos/Shutterstock
David Bell
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A slogan seemingly developed by a febrile aardvark grazing on mushrooms keeps popping up in public health and politics as if it had meaning. Besides serving as proof that confused aardvarks can still outwit many humans, it also helps clarify whether someone talking about pandemics is profit-driven or out of their depth.

David Bell
David Bell
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David Bell, senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), programme head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland, and director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in Bellevue, Wash.
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