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Will we be ready for the next pandemic?
Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine
Tom Frieden
, The Wall Street Journal
The world must move urgently in 2021 to develop strategies and systems for fighting diseases that could be even deadlier than Covid-19
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Fast forward to 2023. The Covid-19 pandemic is largely behind us. Most of the world has been vaccinated, though we have to tamp down occasional flare-ups and people sometimes still wear masks. While we mourn the millions who died, we have entered a post-pandemic world in which most things are more or less as they were before Covid-19. Travel and trade are unrestricted; everything from dinner parties and big weddings to stadium concerts and megachurch services are being held again; and economies are booming to keep pace with pent-up demand.