In the larger picture, we need to do things like changing the underlying conditions that cause pandemics in the first place. “The tragedy of public health is when it’s successful, nobody notices.” Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. To try to understand what has changed since 1918, and whether we’re really prepared (or preparing) for the next pandemic, I spoke by phone with Sonia Shah, a science journalist and the author of Pandemic: Tracking Contagions From Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. We’ve learned a lot since then, but so have the diseases that threaten us. I Was Set Up to Fail.Ī century ago, the Spanish flu swept across the globe, wreaking such devastation that it earned itself the haunting title of “ one of the deadliest disease outbreaks in recorded history.” All said, the pandemic is estimated to have infected 500 million people (one-third of what was then the world’s population) and killed at least 50 million of them. My Job Was to Search for Evidence to Stop Executions. What Real Meteorologists Wish You Knew About Your Weather App The Great Alcohol Health Flip-Flop Isn’t That Hard to Understand-if You Know Who Was Behind It How Therapists Are Trying to Convince Children That They’re Not Actually Trans
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