Can America Learn This Pandemic’s Lessons Before the Next One Hits?

On March 3, 2020, a soft-spoken physician named Dr. Matthew Hepburn ascended the TEDMED stage at the Westin Waterfront Hotel in Boston to deliver a long-planned talk on his life’s work: preventing pandemics. His timing was apt. That day, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had just announced 60 cases of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States, and a cruise ship full of infected passengers would soon be stranded off the California coast. Hepburn had spent 23 years in the US Army as an infectious disease specialist. Now, before a nervous audience of medical professionals who had been bumping elbows… Read Full Article