Disease X

Vaccine and drug inquire … postponed Public hearings for the Inquiry’s fourth investigation, into vaccines and therapeutics (Module 4), will be rescheduled. The hearings were provisionally scheduled to take place in the summer of 2024. They will now take place at a later date, to enable organisations to prioritise providing evidence for the Inquiry’s third investigation on the impact of the pandemic on healthcare (Module 3). There will be no preliminary hearing for Module 4 on 8 February. Covid Inquiry’s probe into vaccines is delayed indefinitely as chair admits postponement will be ’disappointing for some’ Hearings for fourth module of the official inquiry were set to begin this summer A long-awaited probe into the development of Covid vaccines and drugs was today postponed indefinitely. Baroness Heather Hallett ’I know the postponement of these hearings will be disappointing for some’ ’I wish to reassure you that we will hold these hearings as soon as possible.’ Baroness Hallett, to ensure the inquiry doesn’t run beyond summer 2026. Thought to have cost taxpayers £145million already November 2022 Paul Burrell (Her Majesty Elizabeth II) “There are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge,“ Disease X is looming The world needs to be better prepared to tackle a future pandemic, By mapping viruses with the potential to become the next “Disease X”, the global health community and governments can be more responsive the next time a pandemic looms Global collaboration and adequate funding are needed to improve pandemic preparedness and ensure fast action to keep a viral outbreak at bay “You can get a long way towards being able to produce something that will target a novel virus before that virus even emerges.” “It’s a virus that we don’t know yet, but we do know is out there, and we do know has the potential to spill over from an animal population potentially into humans, perhaps mutate or adapt itself and then begin spreading and killing people faster than we can contain it.” … carrying out research and vaccine development for known viral “families” that could impact humans – of which there are 25 – would give humanity a decided advantage over the next Disease X.