Michael Osterholm
Michael Osterholm
Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a prominent public health scientist and a nationally recognized biosecurity expert in the United States. Osterholm is the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policyat the University of Minnesota, a professor in the School of Public Health, and an adjunct professor in the University of Minnesota Medical School...
farmers livelihood risk understand
Farmers need to understand that their livelihood is at risk just because of what this would do to the world economy.
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The resources required to prepare adequately will be extensive, ... But they must be considered in the light of the cost of failing to invest: a global economy that remains in a shambles for several years.
anyone experience
Anyone could experience this very severe, life-threatening illness,
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What we need to do is help companies understand where their vulnerabilities are, what products are critical during a pandemic that we must have, such as medical supplies, and how are we going to respond to that?
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In a pandemic, it's not clear what they would eat, or where they would eat. People may take in less calories, but they've still got to eat.
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In 1918, even among the very young and the very old, there was a ten-fold increase in deaths, ... There was a 1,000-fold increase in young adults.
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Clearly this is the No. 1 public health issue on the radar screen.
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I don't think Maurice really believed this, ... Maurice was always provocative.
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Charles Darwin could not have set up a better genetic re-assortment laboratory if he tried.
limited means supply
That means that very, very limited supply is going to become a lot more limited.
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That is like trying to fill Lake Superior with a garden hose. That's just a start.
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It's the perfect setup. Then you put air travel in and it could be around the world overnight.
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It may well be of great benefit to people who can get it while they're ill.
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The first thing we have to do is make sure we have good sanitation, which right now for many areas in the Gulf region we have none: no running water, no sewers,