[snakeoil]

https://www.wired.com/story/nathan-wolf ... ter-recirc

in September 2019, the Trump administration canceled funding for Predict, the USAID disease surveillance program that had been working to identify dangerous viruses—including work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.)

This a well written and well researched article. A lot of it has to do with insurance but the meat of the article is about the fact that we could have blunted in impacts of covid-19.

Munich RE and Swiss RE are mentioned in the article. These are reinsurance companies that assume some of the insurance risk of smaller companies.

[johnforbes]

Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases had shelled out a total of $7.4 million to the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab