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Does "if an epidemic caught hold" mean "if an epidemic hit hard"?
There is an idiom "catch hold of", meaning to grasp or grip. So "caught hold" might mean "grip us". I am not sure.
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The scenario coincided with the launch of an Oslo-based foundation to develop and distribute vaccines for emerging infections, called the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). It has received funding from the Gates Foundation, the UK biomedical charity Wellcome and countries including Japan and Germany. At the same time, Morhard and his colleagues set about building a network that would coordinate logistics and regulations globally, such as those associated with the use of potential new treatments, if an epidemic caught hold. “We were working on that when this pandemic hit,” Morhard says. “But it’s become clear that all the things we worked on were not commensurate to what we need.”
Source: Nature 04 AUGUST 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02277-6
There is an idiom "catch hold of", meaning to grasp or grip. So "caught hold" might mean "grip us". I am not sure.
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The scenario coincided with the launch of an Oslo-based foundation to develop and distribute vaccines for emerging infections, called the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). It has received funding from the Gates Foundation, the UK biomedical charity Wellcome and countries including Japan and Germany. At the same time, Morhard and his colleagues set about building a network that would coordinate logistics and regulations globally, such as those associated with the use of potential new treatments, if an epidemic caught hold. “We were working on that when this pandemic hit,” Morhard says. “But it’s become clear that all the things we worked on were not commensurate to what we need.”
Source: Nature 04 AUGUST 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02277-6