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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by snarf21 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:28PM (#23408242)
Even worse was his defunding of PREDICT (started in 2009 and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, and it worked with teams in 31 countries, including China. It was just one part of an emerging global network for infectious-disease surveillance.)

This cost a trivial $20M per year and funded the woman listed below among others. Of note, in her team's research they have found dozens of bat-borne coronaviruses in the same family as SARS. This did not sneak up on us; we already have MERS, SARS and Ebola. We should have been (and continuing) spending billions as a species on this but everyone has their head in the sand.

1-[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-wo...]

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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by ars on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @05:06PM (#23408759)
That's a very misleading take. First of all PREDICT was shut down in October, so if it was going to help, then it certainly had a chance.

But it was shut down because it failed, not to save money “But things got complicated in the last two years, and by January, Predict was essentially collapsed into hibernation.”

Maybe I'm misreading the quote, but it sounds like there was some sort of problem with the program, and they just gave up and shut it down.

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