Professor Sharon Lewin

Yeah, the report was a bit alarming, actually, to read it.

And they made a few points.

They made the point that there has been more outbreaks,

They have been more severe and with greater economic impact since COVID.

But probably the one that really worries me is that there's less equity about access to tools to end those outbreaks, such as diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.

We have learned a lot, of course, from COVID.

I think there's been a lot of scientific advances.

But there's been a lot of changes in the world with regard to mistrusting government, misinformation, AI.

It's increasingly hard, I think, for people to really understand facts.

And that's making it all very difficult.

And at the same time, there are requirements for our global leaders to ensure equitable access to tools that we are developing, which requires partnerships across the world.

And there's been big geopolitical changes as well that I think are impacting that.

I think they do.

When people think of a pandemic, they think COVID.

And of course, that was like the pandemic of all pandemics.

But outbreaks that have the potential to expand raise just as much concern.

And it's your opportunity to have a really big impact by limiting the outbreak.

So just imagine Hantavirus, this new strand of Hantavirus andes that we saw on the cruise ship.

Imagine that that hadn't been diagnosed and all those people went back to their various countries.

Hantavirus has this really long incubation period, which means the time between exposure