The next pandemic could make COVID look like a cakewalk, one expert warned Tuesday at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference in Marina del Rey, Calif.
COVID was a “very bad pandemic,” with more than 1.1 million deaths in the U.S. alone so far, Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California’s School of Medicine in San Francisco, noted. Wachter—the author of 300 articles and six books, including a New York Times best-seller—became popular on Twitter during the pandemic.
