Just then Joe was flying to Cambodia to install a node in what he hoped would one day be a global network to detect disease. “Early-warning radar for emerging pathogens,” he called it. It was an idea that had once interested the U.S. government. The original pandemic plan, conceived by the Bush White House, spawned a program called Predict, which set out to test animals around the world to determine which contained viruses that might jump into people. The Trump administration had zeroed out the program’s funding and so Predict, in the end, failed to predict anything. That didn’t trouble Joe so
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