“I think that the idea is catching hold that we should move toward predict and prevent,” Burke told me back then, “rather than surveillance and response.” Of course, he noted, we would always need both. The challenge was balance and priority. The challenge was a finitude of money. And then he volunteered something that does indeed, by today’s hindsight, make him seem prescient. “If I were king, I would be investing in coronavirus diagnostics,” Burke said. “I would be investing in better studies of vaccines against coronavirus.”
