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How to stop next pandemic: Reduce wildlife trafficking and forest loss – Mirage News

The ultimate global financial cost of COVID-19 could top $15 trillion, but governments might be able to prevent future pandemics by investing as little…

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The ultimate global financial cost of COVID-19 could top $15 trillion, but governments might be able to prevent future pandemics by investing as little as $22 billion a year in programs to curb wildlife trafficking and stem the destruction of tropical forests, according to a new paper from an international team of scientists including Rice University’s Ted Loch-Temzelides.
Ted Loch-Temzelides
Compared with the $2.6 trillion already lost and more than 600,000 deaths amid the COVID-19 pandemic, …

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