The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics

Coronavirus

The COVID-19 virus was highly transmissible but killed just 3.4 percent of the people it infected, according to World Health Organization estimates. The far less transmissible coronaviruses SARS and MERS killed 15 and 35 percent, respectively. Epidemiologists’ nightmare, what they call the Big One, is a virus that combines high transmissibility with high virulence. Most believe such a virus will emerge; the only question is when. This volume lays out in gripping, rigorously documented detail

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