No - and thank God for that. But that's not to say that something in the future won't be as bad. Ebola in particular is a nasty little disease. There's no particular reason why a virus with covid's contagiousness and even SARS' mortality rate (approx 10%) can't come along in the future. Then we're in big trouble.
You wonder how much has been learned about the origins of covid. It and Ebola seem to be linked to bushmeat and unsanitary conditions of markets in China and parts of West Africa. In terms of stopping a future pandemic, that seems to be the big learning point, and I haven't heard it discussed too much. (That's not to say it hasn't been discussed, and obviously for now the focus has been on managing what we have)
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