The ‘Disease X’ category experts warned about

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Years ago, experts warned that a mysterious rampant illness could spark a global health epidemic. Now, they warn it’s here.

The World Health Organisation gave this illness the name “Disease X” in 2017 – not referring to a specific disease, but to any new unknown pathogen that could potentially cause a deadly pandemic.‘FIRST PANDEMIC THAT FITS DISEASE X’

Unlike SARS, the coronavirus replicates at high concentrations in the nose and throat, and appears capable of spreading to those who show zero or mild symptoms. In a paper for the American Medical Association, doctors said: “Unlike SARS, Covid-19 infection has a broader spectrum of severity ranging from asymptomatic to mildly symptomatic to severe illness that requires mechanical ventilation.

“If a disease comes along that we haven’t seen before, typically it would take four or five years to come up with a vaccine against that disease. And new technologies might shorten those times,” he said. “When a pandemic comes along of any size, we always look back and wish we invested more.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping said the new coronavirus epidemic was the communist country’s largest-ever public health emergency. Picture: Liu Bin/Xinhua via APPresident Xi Jinping said the epidemic was the “largest public health emergency” since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949.In a rare admission, at a meeting to co-ordinate the fight against the virus, Mr Xi added that China must learn from “obvious shortcomings exposed” during its response.

 

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Yeah billgates talked about it..and nothing JUST happens unless it is made to happen. wuhan400 aka coeonavirus is a lab made BioWeapon.

Name the 'experts'?

Not GWCC........😱

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