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Pandemics: is hoping for the best enough?
Author(s) -
Osterhaus Albert D M E
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2010.22
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , coping (psychology) , political science , law and economics , development economics , business , economics , psychology , biology , virology , medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , psychiatry , outbreak
Albert Osterhaus reflects on the reasons for the increase in emerging pandemics and how we are coping with these situations. Although we might risk over‐reacting, better safe than sorry is still the most reasonable policy.