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‘The big one’: WHO warns future pandemics could be worse than coronavirus
coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 1.7 million people, destroyed economies and pushed hospitals to the brink of collapse.But the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that despite the severity, the pandemic is not “necessarily the big one.”Speaking at a media conference on Monday, the head of the WHO emergencies program, Dr. Mark Ryan, said if there’s one thing to take away from this pandemic, is that “we need to get ready for something which may be more severe in the future.”“This pandemic has been very severe, it has spread around the world extremely quickly and has affected every corner of this planet,” Ryan said.