Anthony Fauci warns against having nightmares about the “next inevitable pandemic.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci has warned that another pandemic is “inevitable”.

The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) revealed in an editorial that his “worst nightmare” has come true with Covid and that he fears that nothing has been learned from this outbreak from a public health perspective to not protected.

Now that America has emerged from the Covid crisis, he said the nightmare remains the same: a new “emerging pathogen with pandemic potential.”

The new challenge is to overcome the lack of “corporate memory,” Fauci said, and not become “complacent” when deaths “fall to an ‘acceptable’ level.”

He said that in his role at NIAID, he was often asked what kept him awake at night or what his worst nightmare was.

He said that before January 2020, “the possibility of the emergence of an entirely new pathogen, almost certainly a virus … that could cause significant morbidity and mortality.”

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“Over the past three years, we have all experienced my worst nightmare,” he said.

The commentary, published in Science Translational Medicine, included his key lessons from Covid that will help against the “next inevitable pandemic”.

He praised the “achievement of getting a safe and highly effective vaccine into people’s arms – resulting in millions of lives being saved” and noted the contributions of Dr. Drew Weissman and Dr. Katalin Kariko, who laid the foundation for the development of highly effective mRNA vaccines. against covid.

Both scientists received the Nobel Prize in 2023 for their work.

Dr. Fauci also addressed public health issues, acknowledging that America is “less successful” in public health than in science.

He said the reasons for the failure were “institutional weaknesses such as fragmented health systems and the gap between health care and public health infrastructure.”

Dr. Fauci also admitted: “Inconsistencies in the implementation and enforcement of containment methods such as masking, distancing and lockdown have led to confusion and a lack of implementation of public health recommendations.”

In the three years since the Covid outbreak, Dr. Fauci has come under fire after overstating the effectiveness of vaccines to boost vaccination rates, donning face masks and pushing for lockdowns.

In March 2020, as concerns about Covid increased worldwide, Fauci told Americans that there was “no need” to wear a face mask. He stressed at the time that they could only help people “feel a little better” and “even stop a drip” – but would not provide good protection.

Less than a month later, however, he encouraged all Americans to wear masks and became a face mask enthusiast, advocating for mandatory face coverings for children age two and older.

He later admitted that the public was initially discouraged from wearing masks to save them for health workers.