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Michael Osterholm on the next pandemic, which he says will be worse
Michael Osterholm's new book stresses the need for improved pandemic preparedness, highlighting a virus with 25%-30% fatality risk and high transmission potential, urging action.
- Publishing today, Michael Osterholm released The Big One, warning future pandemics are likely and `could be a lot worse` than COVID, citing a bat-derived virus in China with 30% fatality potential.
- Michael Osterholm wrote The Big One to recount COVID-19 pandemic events and successes, noting political contention hindered a 9/11-like reckoning that might have driven reforms.
- The book details that respiratory protection and masks used early were ineffective, while consistent N95 mask use offered remarkable protection and the 1991 Metrodome measles study showed virus travel of 425 feet.
- Osterholm urges that governments and health systems must improve preparedness for pandemics, warning public COVID fatigue and vaccine skepticism complicate messaging like `94% protection`.
- Osterholm frames the warning around new high-transmission threats that combine MERS and SARS lethality, asking `What kind of world are we leaving for those kids?` to stress the moral challenge for his five grandchildren.
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'We have basically destroyed what capacity we had to respond to a pandemic,' says leading epidemiologist Michael Osterholm
Live Science spoke with leading epidemiologist Michael Osterholm about his new book, "The Big One," which discusses the next pandemic and how to mitigate its harm.
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Michael Osterholm on the next pandemic, which he says will be worse
Any time Michael Osterholm needs inspiration to continue fighting for public health, he glances at a gift on his desk, a Christmas present from his two adult children. “It’s an electronic picture frame and they keep putting in pictures of…
·Helena, United States
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The next pandemic could rattle civilization — and a new book warns we’re not ready for it
Michael Osterholm and Mark Olshaker's new book, "The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics," argues we don't have the technology to face a virus that manages to be as contagious as COVID and as lethal as SARS.
·New York, United States
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