Robert Enteen

Epidemics of highly virulent diseases are occurring with notably increasing frequency. Yet the world's defenses remain essentially as porous and insufficient as they were in 2019, when Covid emerged. According to some of the world’s leading infectious disease specialists, unless key defense system improvements are made it is virtually certain that we or at the latest our children’s generation will experience re-emerging or previously unknown infectious diseases, some possibly far more devastating than COVID. This presentation will identify the main factors predictive of future pandemics; explain why virulent disease pandemics are increasing in frequency; identify the regions where outbreaks of recurring or new diseases will most likely occur; explain why some local outbreaks will likely spread internationally and become pandemic; offer recommendations for improving our long-term national and global defenses; and provide an update on treaty negotiations.