While many of us may be weary of writing pandemic stories, journalists should continue covering pandemic threats; another one could be brewing because of climate change, changing global security conditions and the potential for bioterrorism, public health experts say.
“We need to be prepared for something that is worse than COVID,” Tom Inglesby, M.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, said at a March 31 Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Pandemic Preparedness & Health Security briefing for lawmakers’ staff and media.
