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'Disease X' likely to prove 20 times deadlier compared to Covid-19, hints expert
- superchroma 3y agoit is not clear from the article whether it is real or hypothetical, which marks this down as atrocious reporting
- jdjdjdjdjduuuu 3y agoDisease X placeholder name that was adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in February 2018 on a shortlist of blueprint priority diseases to represent a hypothetical, unknown pathogen that could cause a future epidemic
- moonraker 3y agoDo you have a link to the WHO's shortlist you mentioned? I'd like to see if they comment on the potential for AI or other kinds of software being used to design/optimize/enhance Disease X
- jdjdjdjdjduuuu 3y agoSorry I don't... I probably should have mentionned that I was quoting a website
- moonraker 3y agoI wish more people were open to being aware of/discussing this. It's a hard truth that most people under the age of 50-55 will experience another global pandemic in their lifetimes (as an early 30-something I think, "next pandemics" is more accurate). It's perfectly understandable that no one wants to talk about what the next pandemic will look like and that's why it's so important to.