{"id":265979,"date":"2023-07-07T20:11:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T18:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=265979"},"modified":"2023-07-07T20:11:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T18:11:44","slug":"next-pandemic-could-be-even-deadlier-than-covid-government-adviser-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=265979","title":{"rendered":"Next Pandemic Could be \u201cEven Deadlier than Covid\u201d, Government Adviser Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0WILL JONES<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next pandemic could be even more deadly than Covid, a Government scientific adviser has warned as he said the U.K. needs to be better prepared for a future health crisis. The Mail <\/em>has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Professor Mark Woolhouse said the coronavirus outbreak, which killed at least 227,000 in the U.K., was potentially nowhere near as bad as it could have been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The epidemiologist told the Covid Inquiry the U.K. made a mistake in preparing only for an influenza pandemic rather than hedging bets across a multitude of different outbreaks, including coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Woolhouse, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Infections group on Modelling (SPI-M) which advised Government during the pandemic, said he did not want to cast himself as a \u201cdoom-monger\u201d, but warned the next outbreak could be far worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He told the inquiry in London: \u201cI hope this doesn\u2019t sound too shocking, but on the scale of potential pandemics, Covid was not at the top and it was possibly quite far from the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt may be that next time \u2014 and there will be a next time, I don\u2019t know when, it may be quite some time in the future \u2014 we will be dealing with a virus that is much more deadly, and is also much more transmissible, in which case actually the things we did to control Covid wouldn\u2019t work anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am not sitting here as a doom-monger saying this is going to happen soon, but I am confident enough to tell Government that this is something you should be concerned about, you should be prepared for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe next pandemic could be far more difficult to handle than Covid was, and we all saw the damage that that pandemic caused.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inquiry, which is in its fourth week, has repeatedly heard from scientists and politicians that the U.K. failed to prepare for a pandemic other than the strict parameters of a flu-like outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Woolhouse said this strategy was like betting on just one horse at the Grand National.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

They just can\u2019t help themselves with their fearmongering and endless \u2018pandemic preparedness\u2019, can they. And Mark Woolhouse had been one of the better ones<\/a>, telling the Government last year that \u201cmost of the people who died in the first wave got infected during lockdown\u201d and \u201clockdowns were not a proportionate or sustainable intervention and the forthcoming inquiry needs to take a critical view of their role\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, this was your chance, Mark. So why are you instead telling the inquiry to make preparations to \u2018control\u2019 deadlier and more contagious diseases?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth is there has not been a global outbreak of disease that killed more than a fraction of a percent of the world\u2019s population for over a century. Thanks to modern living conditions and medicine, \u2018pandemics\u2019 just aren\u2019t something humanity has to worry about anymore. But that\u2019s not the impression you get from listening to any of these scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next pandemic could be even more deadly than Covid, a Government scientific adviser has warned as he said the U.K. needs to be better prepared for a future health crisis. 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