by Peter Westmore
The sudden emergence of a new coronavirus (covid19) from Wuhan, China, at the start of this year marked the commencement of the first pandemic most of us have seen in our lifetimes, and showed how fragile are the systems that have provided rising standards of living throughout the world for the past 70 years.
Not since the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, which took 50 million lives around the globe, has the health of humankind been so threatened by a single disease.
The res…
