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The pandemic insurance Munich Re and Wolfe created was set to pay out as soon as an epidemic reached a certain threshold. It wouldn’t stop the virus, but it could help alleviate some of the misery that stemmed from it. The problem? Nobody bought it. 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Virologist Nathan Wolfe worked with a 140-year-old German insurance giant to crack an impossible problem: how to insure against the economic fallout from rare but devastating pandemics. They created an ingenious product. So why are we in this mess? 1/ https://t.co/Ulj1vuQEZv — PolitiTweet.org

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Companies are led by humans who, like us, are unable to truly imagine a once-in-100-year disaster until it arrives on our doorsteps. Researchers who study epidemics even have a term for the phenomenon: the cycle of panic and neglect. 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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