We spoke to 'The Hot Zone' author Richard Preston about coronavirus, what we can learn from Ebola, and the bumbled responses from the world's officials
, COVID-19, is a very different contagion than Ebola — including different methods of transmission and fatality rates —caught up with Preston about the spread of coronavirus, how the bumbled response by officials mirrors what he saw around Ebola, and what the path forward might be.is a product of the Nineties in one major way: It has a basic faith that the government is full of competent people working hard and doing their best to protect people. Today, the public doesn’t have that faith.
In Africa, at first, people believed Ebola wasn’t real, that it was a plot by the Deep State, that it was fake news, and that it wasn’t much to worry about and would go away. In other words, President Trump has lately been acting like an Africa villager, and that’s not to denigrate African villagers. They were just being human, they were in denial. But once they figured out what Ebola was, they began doing ferocious social distancing, and they also quarantined villages.
I think it is playing out more or less the way I and any number of public health experts thought would happen. Let’s step back a little bit and look at the big picture. How can we protect ourselves as a species? There are good answers. One is to do exactly what is being done: to use social isolation and self-quarantine to protect ourselves. This is the ancient way of dealing with plagues.Exactly, and the cities are left to the poor who can’t get out, so the poor always suffer the most. I’m especially worried about large cities in the developing world. It could be really bad.
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