The pandemic threat ③

A drill today will help to spare millions of lives in the future.
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That would mean sending samples from doctors' surgeries to a central laboratory dedicated to sequencing, even when nothing strange was suspected. And that would require organisation and money. Not every person with a sniffle need be testedonly a small, representative sample. But if this had happened in Mexico over the past few months, the generals of global health would have seen that something was coming down from the hills and they could have mobilised sooner.
Active caution, then, is what is called for. The world's policymakers, most of whom live in the northern hemisphere, should not be fooled into thinking the new virus is going away for long, even if it declines over the next few months. Instead, as in any phoney war, they should use the time they have been granted to reinforce the world's defences by stocking up with antiviral medicine and making vaccines. They should also remember that, even if this flu turns out to be less frightening than feared, it is only a matter of time before a deadlier one comes along. A drill today will help to spare millions of lives in the future.

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surgery 진료실, 수술. dedicate 바치다, 奉獻(봉헌)하다. suspect 의심하다.
sniffle 코감기, 코를 훌쩍이다. representative 대표적인, 대표자, 국회의원.
mobilse 움직이다, 동원되다. call for 요구하다. decline 쇠퇴하다, 거절하다, 기울다. phoney 위조의, 가짜의. grant 下賜(하사)하다, 양도하다. reinforce 강화하다.
stock up 備蓄(비축)하다. deadly 치명적인. drill 훈련.
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