{"id":52196,"date":"2020-03-16T07:18:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T13:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=52196"},"modified":"2020-03-16T07:18:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T13:18:27","slug":"why-are-we-so-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=52196","title":{"rendered":"Why are we so vulnerable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br>\n<!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"> <em>\u201cWhen this current pandemic subsides, and we can catch our breath, we  need to ask: Why are we so vulnerable?\u2019\u2019 said Michael T. Osterholm, who  is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at  the University of Minnesota. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/federal-vaccine-development-sites-ill-suited-to-counter-covid-19-epidemic\/2020\/03\/15\/34e8586c-63c4-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html\"><em>wapo<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Osterholm was the state epidemiologist in Minnesota for a long time, now  he&#8217;s quoted often on the pandemic. He&#8217;s a trustworthy guide in this  time of frustration and mild panic. We must answer his question since  one facet of climate change involves new disease vectors and new  diseases. <\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><br \/><br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen this current pandemic subsides, and we can catch our breath, we need to ask: Why are we so vulnerable?\u2019\u2019 said Michael T. Osterholm, who is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. wapo Osterholm was the state epidemiologist in Minnesota for a long time, now he&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=52196\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why are we so vulnerable?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,100,1885,266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-politics","category-us-history","category-world-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52197,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52196\/revisions\/52197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}