I Am Palmer – Covid-19: Anticipating a Pandemic

I am an Associate Professor at UTHealth School of Public Health and an American Public Health Association Executive Board Member. Many decades ago, when I was in graduate school studying viruses and epidemiology, we speculated about the next pandemic. Even then we felt it could happen at any time. We thought maybe H1N1 flu was the big one, and, although widespread, it was not that lethal.