Medical Xpress March 19, 2025
Ignacio López-Goñi, The Conversation

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. According to official data, there have been more than 770 million cases of COVID, which have caused over 7 million deaths in 231 countries—almost 2.2 million of them in Europe. Other reports estimate that the number of deaths globally was much higher, perhaps even more than double.

We cannot rule out the possibility of a new pathogen causing another global health crisis. We do not know what will cause it or when it will happen, but no one doubts that there will be another . After all, human history is a history of pandemics.

Five years on from March 2020, many of us wonder whether we are better...

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