Editor’s Note: Should We have Seen This (COVID-19 Pandemic) Coming? Addendum President George W. Bush Did in 2005 and Began Planning

摘要

At the end of my March/April 2020 editorial on COVID-19, I asked rhetorically if we should have seen the pandemic coming (page 80–81). I quoted Bill Gates’ 2015 TED talk suggesting a pandemic was more likely than a nuclear war to cause millions of deaths in the next 10 years, and a 2007 scientific paper from Clinical Microbiology Review predicting the re-emergence of novel COVID viruses from China. A physician-researcher subscriber sent me this YouTube video in which President George W. Bush in 2005, during his address to the National Institutes of Health, predicted a future pandemic like COVID-19. View here: .