The Fairy Tale of Pandemic Risk

The Fairy Tale of Pandemic Risk
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David Bell
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Commentary
Public health has come into its own over the past few years—a once-backwater profession now promoted to be the arbiters of liberty and human relationships. Outbreaks of diseases associated with death at an average age of about 80, or even purely hypothetical, are now sufficient reason to close workplaces, close schools, upend economies, and convince people to turn on their noncompliant neighbors. The result has been an unprecedented concentration of wealth for a few while the many have been impoverished.
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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