Melissa's Musings(My opinionated view of life)

World in no better place to fight pandemics than before COVID - review | Reuters

Misguided to think pandemic is over, says WHO Chief Tedros at Global COVID-19 summit : Asserting that the pandemic is not over yet Director-General of the World Health Organization WHO Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday highlighted COVID. Fauci needs to retire.  He doesn't know what he's talking about.

Fauci walks back comment U.S. is ‘out of pandemic phase’ | WRBL

‘Dangerously Unprepared’: New Report Faults Countries’ Pandemic Readiness… Again | Global Health NOW

Next pandemic could be more lethal than COVID, vaccine creator says | Reuters

Covid-19 Surpasses 1918 Flu to Become Deadliest Pandemic in American History | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine : But national population numbers have tripled since then. Influenza killed one in 150 Americans, while one in 500 people have died from the coronavirus

Intensity and frequency of extreme novel epidemics | PNAS : Together with recent estimates of increasing rates of disease emergence from animal reservoirs associated with environmental change, this finding suggests a high probability of observing pandemics similar to COVID-19 (probability of experiencing it in one’s lifetime currently about 38%), which may double in coming decades.

A synthetic pandemic could be far, far worse than Covid-19 - STAT

How Can We Prevent the Next Zoonotic Disease Outbreak? | Modern Farmer

40 years of AIDS taught us epidemiologic humility. We need to apply that lesson in fighting Covid-19 - STAT