LONDON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Future pandemics could be even
more lethal than COVID-19 so the lessons learned from the
pandemic must not be squandered, one of the creators of the
Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine said.
"This will not be the last time a virus threatens our lives
and our livelihoods," Sarah Gilbert said in the Richard Dimbleby
Lecture, the BBC reported. "The truth is, the next one could be
worse. It could be more contagious, or more lethal, or both."
"We cannot allow a situation where we have gone through all
we have gone through, and then find that the enormous economic
losses we have sustained mean that there is still no funding for
pandemic preparedness," she said. "The advances we have made,
and the knowledge we have gained, must not be lost."
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Kate Holton)