The United States recently announced a $150 million, three-year investment in vaccine production technology to deal with the possible “new infectious disease threats." Bill Gates says “We'll have another pandemic.” If there is a new pandemic, what kind of virus might it be? Can human beings control a pandemic after all?
2 Possibilities for the Next Pandemic
If the next pandemic does occur, what kind of virus will it be? There are two possibilities.The first possibility is the emergence of a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2. The virus has already mutated from the earliest original version to D614G, then to Alpha, Delta, Omicron, and recently to the subspecies BA.2 of Omicron. On March 22, BA.2 replaced BA.1 with a global detection rate of over 50 percent.
