Coronavirus: How Disease X, the epidemic-in-waiting, erupted in China
They called it Disease X . The epidemic-in-waiting. The World Health Organisation added it to a list of eight of humanity s worst-known infectious diseases back in 2018. Didn t have a name because it hadn t happened. One aim of the list is to show the 194 countries that fund the United Nations body the threat from global public health emergencies, namely epidemics.
Good article. H/t WGS.