Post Reply - pandemic strategies (or lack of it !)

see charts below

   https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/africa-ac/monkeypox/994708-uganda-records-2-imported-mpox-cases  or  
https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/africa-ac/monkeypox/994708-uganda-records-2-imported-mpox-cases;

In 2017 and again in 2018 the WHO released a short list of priority diseases (see WHO List Of Blueprint Priority Diseases) - that due to their potential to cause a public health emergency - was felt there was an urgent need for accelerated research and development for:
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF)
Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease
Lassa fever
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Nipah and henipaviral diseases
Rift Valley fever (RVF)
Zika
Disease X
An update was expected in 2020, but a SARS-COV-2 pandemic took center stage. 
DJ, So a corona-virus WAS a possible risk in 2018 ?

In this latest report, the number of priority pathogens has grown to more than 30 (see charts below). 
Additions include 7 different influenza A subtypes (H1, H3, H3, H5, H6, H7, and H10), and 5 bacterial strains that cause cholera, plague, dysentery, diarrhea and pneumonia (see yesterday's report on Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) ST23).
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One of the reasons why this blog focuses on such a wide range of pathogens is because the next pandemic could come from out of left field, from a virus, bacteria, or fungus that isn't high on our list.
This is expected to be a `living document', one that will be updated every year or two, as new threats emerge and others fade away. 
I've only had a brief time to scan this report, but it appears well worth downloading and spending time reviewing.

DJ-link https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/consultation-rdb/prioritization-pathogens-v6final.pdf?sfvrsn=c98effa7_7&download=true or https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/consultation-rdb/prioritization-pathogens-v6final.pdf?sfvrsn=c98effa7_7&download=true (38 pages)

DJ-If SARS-2 was one of the 10 possible risks in 2018-why than in 2019 SARS-2/CoViD-19 could start a "world tour" ? 

H5N1, Mpox are NOT under control...There seems to be a very large gap between "theoretical risks" and action...

Maybe there are very major limits to "pandemic planning"-economy may be the major one...However if "the economy" needs climate collapse and pandemics "to function" we need to rethink "economy"!