“... until an infectious disease crisis is very real, present, and at the emergency threshold, is often largely ignored.
To sustain the funding base beyond the crisis," he [Peter Daszak] said, "we need to increase the public understanding for the need for medical countermeasures, such as a pan-influenza or pan-coronavirus vaccine.
A key driver is the media, and the economics will follow the hype.
We need to use that hype to our advantage to get to the real issues.
Investors will respond if they see profit at the end of the process."
