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Amy Maxmen / Pandemic Preparedness

This pandemic feels like it’s taken us off guard—but should it? In the past 20 years, pandemic war game simulations have played out what happens when a pandemic takes hold. And what we’re going through is no surprise.

Click above to listen to part 3 of Home Invasions, featuring Amy Maxmen, reporter at the journal Nature. Her August 4, 2020 story about pandemic war games was accompanied by the above illustration by Ana Kova.

Home Invasions:
Part 1: Invasion Invaded
Part 2: Chris Looney / Murder Hornets
Part 3: Nipun Basrur / Locust Plague
Part 4: Amy Maxmen / Pandemic Preparedness

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