Ten years. I believe sometime in that period it will happen. But I couldn't tell you why.
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Understand that a lot of the things we need to do to prepare are not related to magic bullets.Michael Osterholm
We can predict now 12 to 18 months of stress of watching loved ones die, of wondering if you are going to have food on the table the next day. Those are all things that are going to mean that we are going to have to plan -- unlike any other crisis that we have had in literally the last 80-some years in this country.
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At this point, we're woefully short in vaccines and antibiotics. The U.S. public health infrastructure is but a shell of what it needs to be able to respond. And public health has continued to be overlooked in most of the kinds of funding that have occurred to date, in terms of trying to prepare us for terrorism.
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Farmers need to understand that their livelihood is at risk just because of what this would do to the world economy.
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Most of the federal government right now is as ill-prepared as any part of society.
Michael Osterholm
The good news is we can make a vaccine. The bad news, it's not going to prevent a pandemic in the next 12 to 18 months.
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