Substack December 27, 2024
Katelyn Jetelina and Andrea Tamayo

Every year, the U.S. intelligence community publishes a threat assessment on who was trying to kill us and how it was stopped. I’m always surprised the public health community doesn’t do the same with what, given the impact that biosecurity, health, and the environment have on Americans’ quality of life, survival, and economy.

So, consider this your end-of-the-year public health report for 2024!

We have stopped many things from trying to kill us—not only stopped but prevented in the first place. Often, this work is invisible, and we have our work cut out for us in 2025.

(Disclaimers: These are in no particular order, I am sure we missed many, and this doesn’t mean our work is done. Also,...

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