The COVID-19 outbreak in 2019 triggered measures to raise public awareness regarding pandemics and also led to fast-tracked vaccine development. While these measures helped reduce viral transmission significantly, it also had some unintended consequences, such as an overall reduction in the spread of other viruses, leading to pauses in vaccination regimes. However, fast-mutating pathogens like viruses still pose a significant threat, with predictions of co-infections with multiple viruses causing “twindemics” or “tripledemics” in the future.
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