Anthony Fauci giving people notice of the pandemic https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=74&v=C95ECjxgcJE&feature=emb_logo

At the announcement, the WHO said "Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease".[15][6][5] John-Arne Røttingen, of the R&D Blueprint Special Advisory Group,[8] said: "History tells us that it is likely the next big outbreak will be something we have not seen before", and "It may seem strange to be adding an 'X' but the point is to make sure we prepare and plan flexibly in terms of vaccines and diagnostic tests. We want to see 'plug and play' platforms developed which will work for any, or a wide number of diseases; systems that will allow us to create countermeasures at speed".[6][10] US expert Anthony Fauci said: "WHO recognizes it must 'nimbly move' and this involves creating platform technologies", and that to develop such platforms, WHO would have to research entire classes of viruses, highlighting flaviviruses. He added: "If you develop an understanding of the commonalities of those, you can respond more rapidly".[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_X

I found this after reading about Mark Woolhouse in my last submission.

Mark Woolhouse, professor of ­infectious disease epidemiology at Edinburgh, was one of the team that first identified the threat

Three years ago the World Health Organization published a list of ten pathogens, all viruses, capable of causing global epidemics. They included several that have become familiar: ebola, lassa fever, Sars, Mers and zika. At the bottom of the list was one known only as “Disease X.” It was identified as a potentially emerging threat for which there was no diagnosis, no therapy and no vaccine.

The WHO encouraged more research but Disease X was not in a subsequent list of high-priority projects. Last December it emerged in China and was identified as Covid-19, the coronavirus.

Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Edinburgh University, was one of the team that first identified the threat. >

Does he think that more work could have been done in the intervening years to identify the virus?

“That’s a difficult question — I don’t have an answer,” he said. “Put it this way: with hindsight, which is always a wonderful thing, it would have been useful if we had got more information. It hasn’t really given us a leg-up in dealing with this. All our prior information comes from Sars or Mers. We’re not quite starting from scratch, but we could have had more.”

What is likely, he says, is that like previous viral diseases Covid-19 was a crossover from animals — probably, like Sars, from bats. His team had even pinpointed China as one of the places it was likely to emerge.

“The evidence for it is that there is now a very large diversity of coronaviruses in bats and other animals,” he said. “We know that those can spread in human populations.

“There are already at least three coronaviruses that are endemic in humans; they circulate, but we don’t pay much attention because they are like mild colds; they are simply there.

“However, we’ve had two recent crossovers. We’ve had Sars in the early part of this century, whose source was very likely a bat, and Mers where the main reservoir is camels. We know that these can cross over to humans and become endemic.

“This is still a topic for intense research, but the evidence from the genome sequence of the new virus is that it is certainly very closely related to viruses that are found in bats.

“In some parts of the world bats are a food source. I don’t know if they were for sale in that market, or it might have gone from the bat into another species. This is speculation.”

Professor Woolhouse, who has been among the experts advising the UK government on the virus crisis, thinks the advice it has given so far is “sensible and measured”. He is confident the prediction that 80 per cent of the population will be infected is an extreme that will not be reached.

“The 80 per cent is useful because that is the maximum,” he said. “If you extrapolate from the early stages of what was going on in Wuhan to a population in the UK, you end up with 80 per cent. But all you’ve identified there is the edge of the envelope.

“It’s not going to be 80 per cent for a large number of reasons. The question we’d all like to answer is how much below 80 per cent it is going to be: 15, 20 per cent? That’s where prediction comes in and predictions are difficult to make. It won’t be 80 per cent, and it probably won’t be anywhere near 80 per cent.”

He said the issue of whether towns may have to be isolated, as they have been in other countries, or schools closed, is one ultimately for the government. If it happens, he said, the crucial question will be how long the restrictions remain in force.

Note that Dr. Woolhouse has opined on what it would take for the UK to come out of lockdown https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1266417/UK-coronavirus-exit-strategy-lockdown-end-lifted-news-latest-update-newsnight

"..the most vulnerable must be confident that those they interact with, are virus-free and preferably have already had the infection and are not contagious."