This Pandemic Is Not Even the ‘Big One’

Covid-19 is merely a wake-up call to scenarios that keep infectious-disease experts up at night

Robert Roy Britt
Elemental
Published in
8 min readJan 19, 2021

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As bad as Covid-19 seems, the world has grown increasingly vulnerable to an even deadlier global outbreak that experts expect is inevitable. It’s unclear when and where a more aggressive pathogen will emerge, but scientists say it will…

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Robert Roy Britt
Elemental

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB