Pandemics and national security
If the destructive certainty of future pandemics were widely enough recognized maybe the U.S. federal government would include a separate well funded research department dedicated to building new defences against waves of constantly evolving diseases, something like a Pandemic Defence Department. Then maybe the politicians and the general public wouldn’t be caught so ignorant, surprised, and unprepared by the next inevitable scourge. The cost of developing effective new antibiotics and vaccines is too high to expect private pharmaceutical companies to invest billions that they might not be able to recover.
This page was copied from the c2017 Kindle edition.
Pandemics and national security
If the destructive certainty of future pandemics were widely enough recognized maybe the U.S. federal government would include a separate well funded research department dedicated to building new defences against waves of constantly evolving diseases, something like a Pandemic Defence Department. Then maybe the politicians and the general public wouldn’t be caught so ignorant, surprised, and unprepared by the next inevitable scourge. The cost of developing effective new antibiotics and vaccines is too high to expect private pharmaceutical companies to invest billions that they might not be able to recover.
This page was copied from the c2017 Kindle edition.