“Why pandemics are happening on a broad scale is driven by humans invading wildlife habitat on a scale unprecedented in human history. So, we have a lot of agency in how pandemics happen,” said Shah. “ are very much manufactured by our social, our political and our economic relations with each other and with nature and the environment. Our actions, she asserted, are the origin of microbial spread. Shah challenged this ideology, saying that instead of being prepared for the next pandemic, we should prevent the pandemic altogether. We need to stockpile vaccines, build up our public health infrastructure, build surplus capacity in our hospitals.” “There’s this sense that it’s not a question of if-it’s a question of when the next pandemic will happen,” explained Shah during the opening of her lecture. Shah is a well-known author in science and politics and has written multiple books including “Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola, Beyond” and “The Fever.” Her writing on science and politics has been featured in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and Scientific American, with appearances on CNN, Radiolab, and TedTalk. 22, to deliver a compelling lecture on the transmission and prevention of viruses.
Award winning journalist and author Sonia Shah took the podium in Moyer Hall last Wednesday, Sept.
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