A new Review from ScienceAdvances emphasizes the economic benefits of enacting measures to prevent the spillover of viruses from animals to humans, a major source of pandemic risk.
). Their implementation can create a significant number of jobs across a range of skills as the global economy reconfigures in the wake of the pandemic.
The health, societal, and economic shocks from the COVID-19 pandemic compel consideration of preventing similar future pandemic disasters. To date, most money has been spent after viruses reach epidemic or pandemic scale, and their economic and health damages have grown immensely.
We argue that substantial gaps in knowledge, institutional capacity, and financial resources limit the ability to avert pathogen emergence. We recommend scientific inquiry, policy actions, and financial and organizational resources needed to forestall the next pandemic and estimate that primary pandemic prevention actions are remarkably inexpensive compared to the many lives emerging viral zoonoses take or the direct economic damage they cause.
All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper and/or the Supplementary Materials.
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