American scientist warned about the threat of COVID-26 and COVID-32

If you do not understand the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, then in the future humanity may face a new pandemic, said Peter Hotez, an American scientist, co-director of the Texas Children's Hospital Vaccine Development Center, reports NBC News.

“The current one is the third in a row. Mother Nature is telling us what will happen: there will be COVID-26 and COVID-32 if we do not fully understand the origin of COVID-19,” he said.

In his opinion, it is necessary to investigate the emergence of a new coronavirus directly in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

According to the scientist, the outbreaks of SARS SARS (early 2000s) and the Middle East respiratory syndrome MERS (first registered in 2012) can be considered the first two global epidemics.