What funds are needed to prevent another pandemic? Just 2% of COVID-19’s estimated cost

Mongabay
Jul 27, 2020, 2:22 pm183 pts
COVID-19 will cost the world trillions of dollars. But the cost of preventing a future pandemic could be as little as 2% of that cost, an opinion piece published in the journal Science found. The disease has claimed nearly 650,000 lives so far, of which about 147,000 are in the U.S. alone. As world leaders…

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