#pandemic-preparedness

#pandemic-preparedness

Dr. Murti has played a pivotal role in pandemic preparedness, emergency response and health system transformation, which is vital for her new role as Toronto's medical officer of health.

These discoveries may not just save our own lives, but the lives of people we love. Nearly every innovation that defines our era, every breakthrough from my field and from those of my colleagues, traces back to basic science research.

The research team combined biophysics with artificial intelligence to identify high-risk viral variants quickly, fundamentally altering how we predict and respond to pandemics.

Scientists have pursued a universal influenza vaccine for decades to protect against various strains, with recent plans for $500 million in funding marking significant progress.

"Since the pandemic, there have been many initiatives to better understand the diversity of pandemic threats that the UK and the world may face in the coming years."

"There's certainly preexisting immunity," says Florian Krammer, a virologist at Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine who is involved in some of the new studies. "That's very likely not going to protect us as a population from a new pandemic, but it might give us some protection against severe disease."