Annual-Mud-987 t1_iqwxnv1 wrote on October 3, 2022 at 6:22 PM

Reply to comment by UniversityofBath in Hi, I’m Kit Yates. I’m a mathematical biologist at the University of Bath. I’m also a popular science author and a member of the scientific advisory group Independent SAGE by UniversityofBath

Very interesting thanks! Does that mean that scientists are looking at other coronaviruses for the 'next pandemic' or are they looking at lots of different possible viruses? I guess it could be any of them.

UniversityofBath OP t1_iqwyke4 wrote on October 3, 2022 at 6:27 PM

I'm certainly not at the forefront of these efforts, but we have scientists looking at all sorts of emerging threats. Bird flu, for example has been a popular potential candidate to make the jump from animals to humans and thence to have human to human transmission.

In the UK we have NERVTAG - The New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group for example.