We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics. Why Didn’t We? - WIRED 🔗 📉 💸 🦠

A virologist helped crack an impossible problem: how to insure against the economic fallout from devastating viral outbreaks. The plan was ingenious. Yet we’re still in this mess.

‘There is a bit of financial alchemy to the whole thing,’ Wolfe said. ‘You really are creating something from nothing.’