The UK has quietly downgraded Biorisk Worst-Case Scenarios >5x in a year

Published on September 13, 2026 10:44 AM GMTThe National Risk Register is a morbidly fascinating document I've stumbled across recently. It aims to provide the UK Government's public-facing opinion on what the most serious risks facing the UK are. It's unclear how much this document is used in justifying internal decisions made across UK Government. However, one document its cited in is the Pandemic Preparedness Strategy.One of the headline figures of this register is the Impact-Likelihood matri...