Bird FluMarch 13, 2025
The Next Flu Pandemic Could Be Worse Than Covid If We Don't Heed History
COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.
Stories by Lyne Filiatrault
Lyne Filiatrault is a retired emergency physician who spent most of her 25-year career at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH). For 15-plus years, she served as the VGH emergency department’s quality improvement director. She is now a member of the Canadian Aerosol Transmission Coalition and continues to advocate for preventing the acute and longer-term harms of SARS-CoV-2 infections.