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Dr.Webster: Director, U.S. Collaborating Center (WHO)
Rose Marie Thomas Chair
Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee
Because if it is catastrophic or super catastrophic, all of the services as we know them are likely to collapse. Each household will be dependent on its self for water for food and so on.
Dr. John Oxford: Scientific Director, Retroscreen Virology Ltd.
Professor, St. Bartholomew’s and Royal London Hospital
London, England
I think it will almost be like an Armageddon and people will find it very, very hard indeed to contend with that.
Dr. Michael Osterholm: Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Suddenly the entire economy goes into a tailspin – when that happens, none of us have a clue as to what it might take as to bring that back out of that tailspin. I think that this is going to be an issue for economists, for policymakers, for leaders to begin to address because if we don’t the collateral damage from a pandemic could very well make the overall pandemic itself be just a small piece of the actual damage.
Author John Barry, The Great Pandemic: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History:
People rapidly lost all faith in authority, and didn’t trust anything that they were told. This created a sense of alienation, and made it every person for himself, or herself. It spread terror and isolation.