Fwiw, my vague memory is that some other people at CHS, including Tom Inglesby (the director) did better than Adalja. I think Inglesby’s Twitter was generally pretty sensible though I don’t have time to go back and check. I’d guess that, like most experts, he was too pessimistic about travel restrictions, though. Maybe masks, too?
I do think CHS should get some credit for arguing for taking pandemic response very seriously early on. For example, I think Tom had some tweets arguing for pulling out all the stops on manufacturing more PPE in January 2020.
Note—I’m a bit biased since I was working on biorisk at Open Phil the first time Open Phil funded CHS.
Fwiw, my vague memory is that some other people at CHS, including Tom Inglesby (the director) did better than Adalja. I think Inglesby’s Twitter was generally pretty sensible though I don’t have time to go back and check. I’d guess that, like most experts, he was too pessimistic about travel restrictions, though. Maybe masks, too?
I do think CHS should get some credit for arguing for taking pandemic response very seriously early on. For example, I think Tom had some tweets arguing for pulling out all the stops on manufacturing more PPE in January 2020.
Note—I’m a bit biased since I was working on biorisk at Open Phil the first time Open Phil funded CHS.