Joseph Fair

Fair is known for his work with hemorrhagic fevers notably Ebola and Lassa fever (LHF),^[1] as well as the tracking and biosurveillance of infectious diseases.^[1]

From April 2008 to April 2014, Fair was a corporate vice-president at Metabiota, Inc. (formerly Global Viral Forecasting, Inc.). He then worked as a consulting advisor to Fondation Mérieux.^[2] From 2015 to 2017 he was a chief adviser in Global Health Surveillance & Diagnostics for MRIGlobal and a senior fellow in global health security at Pennsylvania State University.^[5] In 2018 he worked with International Medical Corps.^[6] Since January 2018 he has been a senior fellow at the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University.^[5]

In 2020, Fair was hospitalized with COVID-19-like symptoms shortly after taking a crowded flight, despite wearing a mask and gloves, and theorized that he caught the virus via his eyes as a result of not wearing goggles.^[7][8] Later PCR and antibody testing, however, revealed Fair did not have COVID; the cause of his illness remains unknown.^[9][10]

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