Till now, 5.26 million people across the world have passed away due to the deadly spreading Corvid-19 infection pandemic. In addition, around trillions of dollars in the economic output have been wiped out by this Covid-19 infection
The shocking piece of news that has come out now is that the future pandemic could be even more lethal than Covid-19 infection and the hard lessons learnt must not be squandered. This was revealed by the creator of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. He added that the world must ensure that it is prepared to face the next vital onslaught.
As per Sarah Gilbert, it was clear that the next pandemic would be more lethal, more contagious and worse than the present Covid-19 pandemic. She had hinted that this would not be the last time a virus threatens our lives and livelihoods. It must be noted that she is a professor of vaccinology at ten highly famous Oxford University. She was of the view that the various research made and the knowledge gained should not be lost.
Health experts were of the opinion that the efforts taken to end the Covid-19 infection pandemic were not even and fragmented. Bitter truth is that those people in the low income countries have limited access to the vaccines when compared with those people in the rich countries.
The World Health Organisation or WHO have set up a panel of health experts to review the handling of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. It is now brought out that these health experts want permanent funding and for greater ability to investigate pandemics through a new treaty. It is worthy to note that these health experts have proposed 10Billion USD per year for the sake of the pandemic alone. Sarah Gilbert later shed light on how the Omicron variant spike protein contained mutations that would increase the transmissibility of the virus.