Covid-19: Nobody Saw It Coming?

The frequent excuse for the lack of civil preparedness to the corona virus is, “Nobody saw it coming.”

Well, a Texas grocery store chain with a Director of Emergency Preparedness did:
Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic

And in the past 20 years, there’s been:

1. SARS-1 (2002)
2. H5N1 (2005)
3. H1N1 (2009)
4. MERS (2012)
5. SARS-2 (2019)

Chronic epidemics, that especially affect those hospitalized:

1. MDR-TB
2. obesity
3. Ebola (most years)

Wuhan shrimp seller identified as coronavirus ”patient zero”

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