Reports the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: No one can say that Minnesota’s former state epidemiologist, Michael Osterholm, didn’t warn us about pandemics and the need to prepare for them. In his 2017 book “Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs,” he and co-author Mark Olshaker walk readers through a rogue’s gallery of infectious agents and their potential to wreak havoc on public health and the world’s economies.
The book’s chapter on MERS and SARS is particularly prescient. These diseases are caused by coronaviruses, the same viral family now fueling the COVID-19 pandemic. Three years before this current crisis, Osterholm sounded the alarm on coronavirus diseases’ disturbing combination — they have a relatively high mortality rate and can spread rapidly in humans….
Read the full interview in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune here: http://www.startribune.com/coronavirus-pandemic-what-s-normal-now-what-s-next-an-interview-with-michael-osterholm/568978932/
