Evan Ratliff writes in Wired, “This Is Nathan Wolfe: WeShould Have Listened to Him”. Had he earned my “privilege of being listened to?”
“We Can Protect the Economy from Pandemics. Why Didn’t We?” “A virologist helped crack an
impossible problem. How to insure against economic fallout from devastating
viral outbreaks. The plan was ingenious.
Yet we’re still in the mess.”
It’s July/Aug 2020, p. 40.
The concept is massive reinsurance for pandemics. He had designed a product. Nobody bought
The article gives the history of Metabiota, the disease
surveillance company he bought in 2013, as a disease surveillance company. That sounds a bit like Avi Schiffmann’s
tracking databases for coronavirus today.
In 2001, ReliaStar, the subsidiary of ING where I worked in
Minneapolis, had reinsured many companies in the World Trade Center in NYC,
which was sometimes cites as one reason for the layoff I finally exited in.
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