We’re Even Less Prepared For the Next Pandemic After COVID-19, Expert Warns

A dismantled health infrastructure leaves the U.S. incredibly vulnerable, warns infectious-disease expert Michael Osterholm.

How Does a Pandemic End? Here’s What We Can Learn From the 1918 Flu

Even after that virus died out, it would be years before scientists better understood what happened, and some mystery still ...
Boston Herald

Pozniak: Are we really ready for next pandemic?

The importance of preparing our country and state for the next pandemic cannot be overstated. The deadly COVID 19 pandemic highlighted our many public health vulnerabilities underscoring the need for ...
Vanity Fair

Pandemic Expert Michael T. Osterholm Thinks a Future COVID Could Be So Much Worse

This month, Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, an internationally recognized expert on viral outbreaks and the founding director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the ...
Scientific American

Key NIH research institute told to remove references to 'pandemic preparedness'

Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website, a Nature investigation finds ...