Have a Question About Preparing for the Next Pandemic? Ask the Experts.

Three years after our lives were upturned by the Covid-19 pandemic, questions remain. What have we learned? What about our leaders and policymakers? What happens next time?

Times Opinion will soon start a limited-run weekly newsletter, The Next Pandemic, exploring the most pressing ideas and debates on how to prepare for future threats. This includes debates among experts over key questions surrounding mask mandates and school closures, ideas from Covid vaccine researchers on how to better deliver next-generation vaccines, dispatches from the front lines in Brazil on how to build social trust, lessons from the role that community played in the response to monkeypox and much more.

What questions do you have about pandemic preparedness? Leave them below and we’ll find experts to answer a few in the newsletter. You can sign up here to receive the newsletter in your inbox. — Alexandra Sifferlin, senior staff editor, Opinion

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