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The next pandemic will not wait: universal vaccines, pandemic preparedness, and the integrity of vaccine policy

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By Michael Osterholm
| insights.bio
“What the field needs is better translation of complex immunogenicity and benefit‑risk data into terms that are meaningful to clinicians, public health practitioners, and the public.” Ashling Cannon, Commissioning Editor, Vaccine Insights, speaks with Michael Osterholm, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota, about the pathogen characteristics that define a worst‑case pandemic scenario, the current pipeline of broadly protective influenza...
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This Ebola outbreak is a test the world doesn’t have to fail

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By Michael Osterholm
| The Washington Post Verified
This Ebola outbreak is a test the world doesn’t have to fail (washingtonpost.com) This Ebola outbreak is a test the world doesn’t have to fail By Michael T. Osterholm 2026052119360200 Twelve years ago, during the catastrophic Ebola outbreak in West Africa, I wrote in these pages that infectious diseases anywhere in the world can quickly become threats everywhere. That lesson has only grown clearer in the years since.
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Book Review: “The Big One” by Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker

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By Jessica T. Mathews, Michael Osterholm, Mark Olshaker
| Foreign Affairs Verified
The COVID-19 virus was highly transmissible but killed just 3.4 percent of the people it infected, according to World Health Organization estimates. The far less transmissible coronaviruses SARS and MERS killed 15 and 35 percent, respectively. Epidemiologists’ nightmare, what they call the Big One, is a virus that combines high transmissibility with high virulence. Most believe such a virus will emerge; the only question is when.
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