Are we ready to face the next Disease X?
The world needs to continue preparations to face the next potentially deadly infectious disease.
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The world needs to continue preparations to face the next potentially deadly infectious disease.
The CDC proclaims variants without verification by medical scientists outside its circle and then push vaccines on the public.
It sounds like something Elon Musk might have cooked up: “Disease X.”
COVID-19, caused by a novel coronavirus, was an example of a Disease X when it touched off the pandemic at the end of 2019.
The idea was to encourage the development of platform technologies, including vaccines, drug therapies and diagnostic tests, that could be rapidly adapted and deployed in response to an array of future outbreaks with epidemic or pandemic potential.