We Won’t Avoid the Next Pandemic. But We Can Still Prepare.

We Won’t Avoid the Next Pandemic. But We Can Still Prepare.

This article was produced in partnership with The Sick Times, a journalist-founded website chronicling the Long COVID crisis.When a pandemic begins, so does the blame game. Early days of COVID-19 pointed fingers at wild meat markets and debunked lab leak conspiracies, and that crystallized a long-running narrative that outbreaks are generally humans’ fault; roll the dice enough times with wildlife and you’re bound to land on a plague.Problem is,…