
#55 – Jassi Pannu and Joshua Monrad on Pandemic Preparedness
Hear This Idea
00:00
I Think the Pie for Emerging Infectious Diseases Is Really Small Right?
If you exclude current COVID-19 R&D spending then the pie for emerging infectious diseases is almost a billion dollars. The stats on these are just like truly mind-boggling right if you compare it with other diseases like cancer or other things that are more prominent in global north countries. A lot of this comes out under 30 dollars per year of life lost like each each year it's really quite shocking but yeah I'll link lots of more of that into the show notes.
Transcript
Play full episode