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8. A Playbook for Beating the Next Pandemic

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Cd Cs - The Root of Many of Our Early Problems

The lack of diagnostic testing was the root of many of our early problems. We couldn't identify how spread was occurring, so we overestimated the role of contaminated surfaces. Even what we stock piled wasn't kept up to date. The pathagin that we always feared was a flue. We never anticipated that a crone of ours would cause a pandemic. Really, we should have been focused on broad categories of diseases. What we really needed to be investing in wasn't necessarily a stock pile of products, but the capacity to make products in a crisis.

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