This week global leaders met at the World Economic Forum to discuss “Disease X,” a hypothetical pathogen that could usher in a new—and deadlier—pandemic.
But to disease experts like Dr. Richard Urso, it’s nothing novel.
“I’m not really that worried,” he told Frontline Health.
“It literally took me two hours to figure [COVID-19] out…If they make something really deadly, it won’t spread that easily,” he said. Urso alluded to the possibility that the next deadly pathogen may likely originate from a lab rather than nature.
“At the end of the day, the disease itself won’t be the real weapon. It'll be the vaccine,” he said.
Urso is a drug design and treatment specialist, an ophthalmologist, and former chief of orbital oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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