“The COVID-19 pandemic has provided researchers with a wealth of information on contemporary successes and failures in combating an emerging pathogen”

“And let’s not kid ourselves; another pandemic is evolutionarily inevitable. We can’t say when it will strike or if it will be worse than COVID.”

“Experts said a lot of predictions made about how Covid-19 would evolve have turned out to be wrong. Five years on, what do we know about the virus?”

“More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering the after-effects of not only the virus but also the prolonged period of stress, isolation, loss, and uncertainty that the pandemic caused.”

“But experts are worried that despite the hard-won lessons of covid, we are not fully prepared for the next pandemic…”