Metrics of Disease Preparedness by EllieKay

A primer on how to tell if your coun­try is pre­pared for fu­ture pan­demics, and biolog­i­cal risks more gen­er­ally. This is a cross-post from my Medium. 🦠 IntroBiolog­i­cal risks are worth car­ing about!We saw from COVID-19 that pathogens can make peo­ple sick in the short and long-term.We also know that pan­demics can cause sec­ond /​ third or­der effects on e.g. the econ­omy and so­cial un­rest.On av­er­age, the con­sen­sus seems to be that we are see­ing more fre­quent pan­demics de­spite...