Has anyone done research on why Covid-19 didn't become a bigger warning shot for future pandemic prevention?

By Peter @ 2025-03-05T22:41 (+22)

Is this because it went on for so long? Because people don't connect it to future threats? Because it was polarized? Other reasons?

Is this topic worth doing survey research on?

It seems very important to understand for biorisk and perhaps other areas like AI safety, where people frequently refer to "warning shots" as events that could shift what's possible.

Davidmanheim @ 2025-03-06T02:44 (+5)

In my personal view, there was a tremendous failure to capitalize on the crisis by global health security organizations, which were focused on stopping spread, but waited until around mid 2021 to start looking past COVID. This was largely a capacity issue, but it was also a strategic failure, and by the time anyone was seriously looking at things like the pandemic treaty, the window had closed.