Being prepared for the next pandemic is important—but we should also be focused on stopping it entirely. More than a year after the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic, and after more than 172 million people have gotten sick and 3.7 million have died, it still isn’t clear exactly how the virus began to spread. While some scientists argue that it may have escaped from a research lab in China, many experts still think that—like SARS, Ebola, MERS, and HIV before—it made the jump from ...
Being prepared for the next pandemic is important—but we should also be focused on stopping it entirely. More than a year after the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic, and after more than 172 million people have gotten sick and 3.7 million have died, it still isn’t clear exactly how the virus began to spread. While some scientists argue that it may have escaped from a research lab in China, many experts still think that—like SARS, Ebola, MERS, and HIV before—it made the jump from ...
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