More terrible than COVID: what is disease X and is a new pandemic threatening us?

The world may face a new challenge in the near future. The question of whether a disease worse than COVID threatens humanity will be discussed at the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland, writes WomanEL.

The disease is worse than COVID. Source: Freepik

According to the World Economic Forum, the event program outlines what new efforts are needed to prepare health systems for the many challenges ahead.

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< p>Given new warnings from the World Health Organization, the unknown “disease X” could lead to 20 times more deaths than the coronavirus pandemic,

noted in the program.

Speakers will include:

• Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyes — Director General of WHO;
• Shyam Bishen – Head of the Center for Health and Healthcare; Member of the Executive Committee of the World Economic Forum in Geneva;
• Roy Jacobs – President and CEO of Royal Philips;
• Preetha Reddy – Executive Vice-Head of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd;
• Nicia Trindade Lima – Minister of Health of Brazil;
• Michel Desmarais – Chairman of the Board of AstraZeneca Plc;
• Jamil Edmond Anderlin – Editor-in-Chief of Europe, Politico.

The hypothetical name of an unknown pathogen “disease X” is used among scientists to encourage development countermeasures Including vaccines and tests that can be used in the event of an upcoming outbreak.

New challenges… Source: Freepik < p>In 2018, WHO included “Disease X” in its list of priority diseases to speed up research into a pathogen that could lead to a new pandemic. According to the head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, the “X” in the name means “surprise.”

In 2020, after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, experts suggested that the SARS-CoV-2 strain and which caused COVID-19, may be “disease X.”

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