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The Willis Research Network has partnered with Metabiota, a risk analytics organisation that specialises in infectious diseases modelling and helps businesses and countries build resilience to pandemics. The partnership will leverage San Francisco-headquartered Metabiota’s epidemiological data analytics capabilities to improve …

COVID-19 will not be the last pandemic in our deeply interconnected world, and sadly it won’t be the worst. Two profoundly different possible futures are available to us: one in which we stick our heads in the sand as we have consistently done, and one where humanity takes the hard, necessary steps to protect itself.

Metabiota on CNN Business. It’s too late for this pandemic. But everyone wants insurance against the next one.

Businesses around the world are facing catastrophic losses as the novel coronavirus forces them to scale back operations or shut down entirely, and most don’t have insurance cover for pandemics. Companies are now racing to buy protection against the next outbreak, insurance experts say.

It was an AI that first saw it coming, or so the story goes. On December 30, an artificial-intelligence company called BlueDot, which uses machine learning to monitor outbreaks of infectious diseases around the world, alerted clients—including various governments, hospitals, and businesses—to …

Companies buy insurance that usually pays out when they have to halt operations. But it’s usually because of physical damage, not outbreaks.   Two years ago Munich Re, the reinsurance giant, tried to start underwriting a new kind of insurance …

Metabiota’s Chairman, Nathan Wolfe, featured on CNN with Anderson Cooper Epidemics can spread globally faster now than before — but our science has also advanced There have been epidemics in decades past, and there will be more in future years. …