A short thread/PSA on this whole business of who predicted the COVID pandemic. January was not the time when coronaviruses became public health threats. WHO had already included them on their first priority list in 2015...1/n https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2015/12/08/default-calendar/december-2015---first-list-of-top-emerging-diseases-likely-to-cause-major-epidemics

Identifying individuals that “predicted” COVID discounts the monumental efforts of the Henry’s, Feldmann’s, Subbarao’s, Frieman’s, Sheehan’s, Munster’s, De Witt’s and Baric’s, to name a few, of the world that helped sound the alarm for years...2/n

Predicting it could be bad in January was not unlike someone predicting that a football team might go undefeated after they hit 4-0. On the other hand, the analysts talking about a team ascending to greatness for years are all of the folks that had been sounding the alarm 3/3