News Headline

COVID-19 and Biodiversity Loss: How Destruction of the Environment Leads to Pandemics

Source
State of the Planet

Publication Date
2020-11-24

The devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have left us all wondering: What have we done wrong to create a global catastrophe that has killed more than a million people? The general public has been focusing on explanations related to the immediate present — that we have not taken the right precautions in social distancing or have not been testing the population thoroughly.

Content
https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/11/24/covid-19-biodiversity-loss-pandemics/