And today, stuck at home in a seemingly never-ending pandemic purgatory, it appears that we did not heed his warning. We tracked down that same scientist today to ask him: How do you stop the next pandemic? The pathogens spill over into them, and then can spread through that connectivity.” [birds squawking] “We’re encroaching on their habitats. And suddenly, you create a contact area which didn’t exist before.” So what do these new contact areas look like? So there is more Lyme disease.” And yet, Covid-19 may not have started this way at all.

Source: New York Times September 01, 2020 09:23 UTC