Our guest in this episode is Dina Fine Maron, an Investigative Reporter for National Geographic covering Wildlife Crime. Dina was previously a health editor for Scientific American magazine and holds a master’s degree in public health. In short, she knows a lot about wildlife trafficking and public health, and those appear to be two important factors in the origin of COVID. We discuss the connection between healthcare and wildlife crime, how COVID-19 could have made its way from bats into humans, whether there’s any evidence coronavirus originated in a lab, and what China is doing to prevent future pandemics.
EPISODE LINKS
National Geographic’s Wildlife Watch
What the Mink COVID-19 Outbreaks Taught Us About Pandemics
China’s exotic farms may be a missing link behind the pandemic’s leap to people
‘Wet markets’ likely launched the coronavirus. Here’s what you need to know.