How Disproportionate Focus on Pandemics Harms Global Public Health: David Bell and Garrett Brown

Dec-10-2024
Dr. David Bell is a former World Health Organization medical officer and a senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute. Garrett Brown is a professor of global health policy at the University of Leeds.
“Their argument is that there is an exponential increase going on in risk. But again, if you look at the data in their reports that we’ve looked at in the reports from the World Bank, etc, it’s not showing this at all,” says Bell.
“The good study that we found on this suggested that a COVID-like event will take place every 129 years to 344 years,” says Brown.
Since 2023, they have been publishing a series of reports as part of a research project reevaluating the global pandemic preparedness and response agenda, which estimates an annual budget of $31.1 billion dollars. They say that this will have massive opportunity costs and will have a negative impact on low and middle-income countries.
“They use COVID [as] an example of the cost, although most of the costs of COVID were not directly from a virus that killed people on average at [the] age of about 80 to 83. They were the costs of closing down economies, obviously,” says Bell.

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