{"id":6630,"date":"2021-11-20T21:59:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T21:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6630"},"modified":"2021-11-20T21:59:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T21:59:58","slug":"the-us-is-about-to-make-the-same-pandemic-preparedness-mistakes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6630","title":{"rendered":"The US is about to make the same pandemic preparedness mistakes \u2014 again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Outside experts have estimated that as much as $75 billion should be spent over 10 years on public health infrastructure, preparedness, and prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.rules.house.gov\/files\/BILLS-117HR5376RH-RCP117-17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The revised Build Back Better legislation<\/a>&nbsp;totals roughly $10 billion in public health infrastructure and pandemic preparedness funding over the next few years \u2014 a down payment on better readiness, in Democrats\u2019 view, but one without assurance of future installations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll too often, when there\u2019s a crisis, the reaction is to put money into public health. Once the crisis subsides, the funding tends to dry up,\u201d Ron Bialek, president of the Public Health Foundation, told me. \u201cThis is not a recipe for success.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/coronavirus-covid19\/2021\/10\/28\/22748841\/build-back-better-bill-details-covid-pandemic-public-health-funding\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/coronavirus-covid19\/2021\/10\/28\/22748841\/build-back-better-bill-details-covid-pandemic-public-health-funding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Outside experts have estimated that as much as $75 billion should be spent over 10 years on public health infrastructure, preparedness, and prevention.<\/p>\n<p>The revised Build Back Better legislation totals roughly $10 billion in public health infrastructure and pandemic preparedness funding over the next few years \u2014 a down payment on better readiness, in Democrats\u2019 view, but one without assurance of future installations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll too often, when there\u2019s a crisis, the reaction is to put money into public health. Once the crisis subsides, the funding tends to dry up,\u201d Ron Bialek, president of the Public Health Foundation, told me. \u201cThis is not a recipe for success.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,1193,81,80,411,279],"class_list":["post-6630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-government-spending","tag-health","tag-health-system","tag-policy","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6631,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions\/6631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}