Laurie Garrett has been paying close attention to this pandemic and to responses around the world. What should we have learned from The Coming Plague? And what can we learn from our recent experience to help us respond better to emerging pathogens in the future? What Should We Learn From the Coming Plague? In the US, not enough personnel were available or trained to do contact tracing to help stop chains of transmission.
National stockpiles of PPE (personal protective equipment) were depleted.
Public Health Systems Were Not Ready for COVID-19:Īlthough Garrett has been warning that such emerging diseases threaten not only health, but also national security, we were not at all ready for COVID-19. Since then, of course, a number of bacteria and viruses have appeared, including SARS in 2002, Ebola in 2014 and, most recently, SARS-CoV-2 in 2019. In this thorough, carefully researched analysis, she laid out why public health authorities should be watching for new pathogens and how they should respond if that happened. And black African people in great need are denied access to full immunization against the COVID-19 virus.Almost thirty years ago, Laurie Garrett published The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. Black African nations are singled out for travel bans, despite circulation of omicron in white European countries. The racial component in this seems inescapable. We are aiding and abetting the virus by hoarding vaccines and by categorizing one group of rich-world immunocompromised as top priority, while ignoring a significant group in Africa with HIV-weakened immune capabilities.
"While we have no indication that this variant arose in the immunocompromised body of an HIV-positive individual, humanity’s egregious refusal to prioritize those in southern Africa who have been infected by the 20th-century’s second great pandemic is likely to continue providing the coronavirus with fertile ground for spread, growth, and evolution. How #hiv and #covid19 Variants Are Connected.
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