The Coronavirus SARS-CoV2 is already devastating us for more than five months and is still spreading at a rapid speed. When the virus was first spread, researchers on the news said it was because of some person who ate a bat and got the virus. Also, The Smithsonian has researchers in Myanmar collected samples from bats and they found six new coronaviruses. Bats are known for having a very good immune system so that they can carry the virus without showing any bad symptoms. But that leads to the question, “why does the next pandemic have a big chance to be another coronavirus?”
I personally think that another coronavirus has a higher chance of being the cause of the next pandemic because of three reasons. The first one is that coronaviruses spread way easier than other viruses. People will not show symptoms and spread it. Also, because there are bats in Texas, China, Myanmar, and other extremely populated places, it will be super easy for the virus to grow.
Second of all in the study conducted by the Smithsonian, they only used samples from around 700 bats which 48 of them had a coronavirus. So, if we rounded 48 to 50 and make a fraction of how much has a coronavirus, the fraction would be 1/14. So if every one in fourteen bats has a coronavirus, it could be likely that if a person does not properly cook a bat if they are ever going to eat it, it will be a big chance that there will be coronavirus.
Lastly, Coronavirus stay longer in a person so that person can infect more people in a longer time period. For example, some people are in hospitals from March who are still on ventilators in the ICU. Furthermore they can be infected after they have died of the virus.
Overall, a coronavirus will probably cause the next pandemic because of three reasons. First, it spreads from bats easier. Also, if people don’t properly treat bats then they get infected. Lastly, a coronavirus stays longer in humans so this is why I believe that the next pandemic will be of a coronavirus.