This article argues that clinicians should promote prevention strategies and strengthen public health systems, highlighting existential hazards linked to infectious diseases.
Key Points
Pandemics pose significant risks of human depopulation in the Anthropocene, urging ethical awareness.
Existential factors like global warming and bioterrorism intensify pandemic risk, necessitating intervention.
Clinicians are called to enhance public health and incentivize strategies such as vaccination against infectious diseases.
Strengthening global partnerships is essential to mitigate existential pandemic harms effectively.