New, Infectious Coronavirus Is Detected in Malaysia – and It's Coming from Dogs (npr.org)

"Everyone panic!"

I hate articles like this, injecting emotion and whatnot in subtle ways.

For example, the term "disturbing" is used, though that is the author's word, not the scientists'. Is the author qualified to conclude these findings are disturbing? Or is this projection/sensationalism, intended to frighten the reader?

My bet is on the latter.

I think the markets and the global economy need to start hedging against pandemics. Like a trade-off between market efficiency and long term stability against pandemics. I feel like the current global economy has "over-fitted" to a world without wars, pandemics, supervolcanoes, solar flares etc. As for pandemics, I think Covid was rather mild. It could have been a lot worse.