by Rhonda Wilson, All News Pipeline:

On Thursday, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (“CEPI”) and the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) called on researchers and governments to strengthen and accelerate global research to prepare for the next pandemic.

They emphasised the importance of expanding research to encompass entire families of pathogens that can infect humans – regardless of their perceived pandemic risk – as well as focusing on individual pathogens.

CEPI and WHO’s call was based on a report, which involved the collaboration of over 200 “scientists,” that further developed a strategy for searching for pathogens that can infect humans.   The search for the next pandemic causing, or not, pathogen is prescience, or fortune-telling, from which only the vaccine industry can benefit.