. It is within our power to prevent lab-originated pandemics but not natural pandemics
Might be false.
If you could clear vaccines for deployment with good transmission prevention before zoonosis, and the hypothesis that viruses in the wild that are prone to zoonosis are observable (so you can prepare), then you could basically prevent zoonosis events from becoming pandemics (because you could immediately begin ring vaccination).
So there are no “natural pandemics”, there are new diseases which interact with social conditions to become pandemic (just as existing diseases can mutate past current limitations). If those social conditions do not exist, disease does not reach pandemic status.
Might be false.
If you could clear vaccines for deployment with good transmission prevention before zoonosis, and the hypothesis that viruses in the wild that are prone to zoonosis are observable (so you can prepare), then you could basically prevent zoonosis events from becoming pandemics (because you could immediately begin ring vaccination).
So there are no “natural pandemics”, there are new diseases which interact with social conditions to become pandemic (just as existing diseases can mutate past current limitations). If those social conditions do not exist, disease does not reach pandemic status.