Will there be another pandemic before 2024?
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This prediction will settle as 'YES' if the WHO declares a new pandemic of any kind before 2024.

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Even though, WHO has warned in a meeting with the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland that ''The next pandemic 'even deadlier' than COVID is coming'' as published on May 23, 2023(Marc Lallanilla). I do not subscribe to the fact that there will be a new pandemic before 2024. I agree there will be a new pandemic future but not before 2024.

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I do not think so because people are discovering vaccines, and cures. However, it is a possibility as there are new variants that people are discovering. According to yalemedicine.org, The new SARS-CoV-2 strain is one of them which started to spread summer of 2023.

<pedantry> Just a technicality that I go around noting - the WHO does not have a formal mechanism to "declare a pandemic", it's not a thing. In practice, I doubt that this would cause much difficulty resolving a market on manifold, since the owner could just decide that WHO officials using the word "pandemic" descriptively in a public briefing/document would count, but it's worth heading off confusion. </pedantry>

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@AlexDemarsh what official body would be better to use in place of WHO would you say? Does the CDC officially declare pandemics?

@AdSd I don't believe there is any such body. The WHO's formal emergency mechanism is close, but it's also used for non-pandemic emergencies.