The next global disaster is on its way, and we aren't ready
There were many warnings before 2020 that humanity’s most clear and present danger was a new pathogen and the global pandemic it could cause. — AFP THE Covid-19 pandemic is not over, but it is already clear that Lord Rees, Britain’s astronomer royal, has won his 2017 bet with the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker that “bioterror or bioerror will lead to one million casualties in a single event within a six-month period starting no later than Dec 31,2020.” Last year, according to Johns Hopkins University, the SARS-CoV-2 virus claimed the lives of 1.8 million people. The global deat...
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