GoodTaste
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Rivers admits the demands of the pandemic have been “a lot to manage,” but she also sees opportunities, including the chance to revive a proposal that would better prepare the country for the next viral threat. While she was in graduate school, Rivers and colleagues proposed creating a National Infectious Disease Forecasting Center, akin to the National Weather Service, that would put a coordinated team of epidemic modeling experts inside the government.
Currently, academic experts largely volunteer their time. “There is no other capability of national strategic importance that we handle like that,” she says. “We don’t let the military self-organize. We don’t let the national hurricane center be academics in various universities who volunteer.”
Source: Science Sep. 10, 2020
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...-bridges-gulf-between-science-and-us-politics
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Rivers admits the demands of the pandemic have been “a lot to manage,” but she also sees opportunities, including the chance to revive a proposal that would better prepare the country for the next viral threat. While she was in graduate school, Rivers and colleagues proposed creating a National Infectious Disease Forecasting Center, akin to the National Weather Service, that would put a coordinated team of epidemic modeling experts inside the government.
Currently, academic experts largely volunteer their time. “There is no other capability of national strategic importance that we handle like that,” she says. “We don’t let the military self-organize. We don’t let the national hurricane center be academics in various universities who volunteer.”
Source: Science Sep. 10, 2020
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...-bridges-gulf-between-science-and-us-politics
