Can anonymous data and/or credit card spending help prevent the worst from the next pandemic?

The cost of zoonotic epidemics is inordinate, with the International Monetary Fund predicting that COVID-19 alone will cause the global economy to contract by 3% in 2020, wiping out $9 trillion in productivity through 2021. Yet, even in the two decades before the present pandemic, the World Bank estimated direct costs from zoonotic diseases to be more than $100 billion.

‘Zoonotic’ diseases — 60%+ of all known human infectious diseases.