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Respiratory Outlook June Update: New World Screwworm Enters the US

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Will WHO declare hantavirus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern before 2027?

0.4% chance

5
1919 comments
106
106 forecasters
0.4%chance

Pandemic series: a major naturally-originated pandemic by 2026?

result: yes

43
4949 comments
238
238 forecasters
ResolvedYes

Ragnarök Question Series: if an artificial intelligence catastrophe occurs, will it reduce the human population by 95% or more?

30% chance

24
2222 comments
329
329 forecasters
30%chance

Ragnarök Question Series: If a global catastrophe occurs, will it be due to an artificial intelligence failure-mode?

25% chance

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4545 comments
468
468 forecasters
25%chance

How many named variants of SARS-COV-2 in its first 10 years?

15.5 variants (14 - 20.3)

4
99 comments
18
18 forecasters
15.5 variants
(14 - 20.3)

Will the WHO declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in 2026?

result: yes

5
1717 comments
763
763 forecasters
ResolvedYes

By five years after AGI, will an engineered pandemic have infected one billion people?

18.9% chance

5
1010 comments
58
58 forecasters
18.9%chance

Respiratory Outlook April Update: Measles Surge Slows as Flu Season Ends with Likely Moderate Severity

5
0 comments

Will the WHO announce a non-H5N1 pandemic before 2040?

50% chance

11 comment
9
9 forecasters
50%chance

Will an epidemic or agroterrorist attack on US agriculture cause at least $20 billion (2021 USD) in damage by 2040?

20% chance

2
0 comments
29
29 forecasters
20%chance

By 2100, will the human population decrease by at least 10% during any period of 5 years?

36% chance

60
2323 comments
425
425 forecasters
36%chance

Pandemic series: federal funding of "gain of function research of concern" in 2016-18?

result: yes

8
66 comments
59
59 forecasters
ResolvedYes

Ragnarök Question Series: if a global climate disaster occurs by 2100, will the Earth's human population decline by 95% or more?

1% chance

7
77 comments
199
199 forecasters
1%chance

How many cattle will be culled because of an infectious disease outbreak, in the largest such occurrence, between 2021 and 2023?

8967 (2609 - 34.2k)

7
44 comments
42
42 forecasters
8967
(2609 - 34.2k)

Economist 2021 Series Announcement

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1313 comments

Will USDA license HPAI H5 vax in dairy cows by July 1, 2025?

1313 comments
17
17 forecasters

What will be the rate of deaths (per 100,000 people) from global conflict in the following years?

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1212 comments
71
71 forecasters

Ragnarök Question Series: If a global catastrophe occurs, will it be due to either human-made climate change or geoengineering?

10% chance

35
5252 comments
296
296 forecasters
10%chance

Will there be any reported human-to-human transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 globally before 2026? → Will CDC report 10,000 or more H5 avian influenza cases in the United States before January 1, 2026?

77 comments
25
25 forecasters

Ragnarök Question Series: If a global catastrophe occurs, will it be due to nuclear war?

30% chance

28
1515 comments
287
287 forecasters
30%chance

What will be the maximum global single-year death toll attributable to a single pandemic between 2022 to 2121?

51.8M deaths (17.1M - 156M)

9
55 comments
25
25 forecasters
51.8M deaths
(17.1M - 156M)

Ragnarök Question Series: if a global biological catastrophe occurs, will it reduce the human population by 95% or more?

7% chance

13
22 comments
166
166 forecasters
7%chance

Will there be a novel pathogen that kills over 25 million people between 2022 and 2031 (inclusive)?

5% chance

43
3434 comments
301
301 forecasters
5%chance