It's long been the fear of public health experts that our interconnected world would enable one virulent disease to spread quickly, with devastating effects across the globe.
That fear came to pass with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which emerged in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019, and subsequently spread around the world in a matter of months.
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