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Experts warn that over half of the top TikTok videos about mental health spread misinformation, potentially harming vulnerable users by providing misleading advice and trivializing serious conditions, prompting calls for stronger safeguards.
The next pandemic could be as infectious as COVID-19 but far more lethal, according to Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. While COVID-19 has caused over 1.1 million deaths in the US alone, it generally killed under 5% of the people it infected. Wachter warns that there's nothing to say a virus couldn't be as infectious as COVID-19 but far more lethal. Other experts have also raised the possibility of an equally transmissible but more lethal pandemic pathogen.
The next pandemic could be as infectious as COVID-19 but far more lethal, warned Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. COVID-19 killed under 5% of the people it infected, but the next pandemic could have a higher mortality rate. Experts are watching COVID-19 evolution for the potential development of a variant that has Omicron’s transmissibility with the lethality of Delta. The next pandemic pathogen may not be a coronavirus at all, and experts are eyeing a variety of strains of bird flu, given increasing transmission to and among mammals, and several recent human cases in disparate parts of the world.