{"id":7688,"date":"2022-04-19T16:05:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T16:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7688"},"modified":"2022-04-19T16:05:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T16:05:14","slug":"they-warned-about-pandemics-before-covid-19-now-they-have-a-100-billion-plan-to-stop-the-next-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7688","title":{"rendered":"They warned about pandemics before Covid-19. Now they have a $100 billion plan to stop the next one."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Among other priorities, the plan includes funding for: creating vaccine candidates<\/a> for each of the 26 families of viruses known to infect humans; developing antiviral medications that can work against a broad spectrum of viruses; building out manufacturing capacity<\/a> for vaccines, antivirals, tests, and other countermeasures; deploying genomic sequencing<\/a> as a way to track outbreaks; developing broadly useful diagnostic technologies and better regulatory processes for approving and disseminating plentiful rapid tests; and improving security in laboratories<\/a> dealing with dangerous viruses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House, to its credit, has already proposed funding around this level. Most recently, in its 2023 budget proposal, the Biden administration asked for $88.2 billion in funding<\/a> over five years on pandemic preparedness. That includes $40 billion for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the Department of Health and Human Services to \u201cinvest in advanced development and manufacturing of countermeasures for high priority threats and viral families, including vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and personal protective equipment (PPE),\u201d as well as $12.1 billion in research funding for the National Institutes of Health for vaccine, therapeutics, and diagnostics development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bumb notes that the Biden proposal actually drew on the original Apollo plan put out by the bipartisan commission. That\u2019s part of why the new commission report is so notable: This is a group that\u2019s capable of driving policymaking at high levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, Congress has yet to appropriate<\/a> money at the commission\u2019s desired level to prevent the next pandemic. It\u2019s barely interested in further funding response to the current,<\/em> ongoing pandemic, which is still killing hundreds of Americans a day<\/a>. A group of senators recently cut a deal for $10 billion to fund Covid-19 response, after slashing funding the White House wanted to help fight the pandemic abroad \u2014 only to have Republicans block the deal on the Senate floor<\/a> over separate immigration concerns. Even if the funding eventually passes, it\u2019ll have to wait until after the Easter recess<\/a> ends on April 22.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23020343\/pandemic-prevention-apollo-athena-bipartisan-commision<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Among other priorities, the plan includes funding for: creating vaccine candidates for each of the 26 families of viruses known to infect humans; developing antiviral medications that can work against a broad spectrum of viruses; building out manufacturing capacity for vaccines, antivirals, tests, and other countermeasures; deploying genomic sequencing as a way to track outbreaks; developing broadly useful diagnostic technologies and better regulatory processes for approving and disseminating plentiful rapid tests; and improving security in laboratories dealing with dangerous viruses.<\/p>\n

The White House, to its credit, has already proposed funding around this level. Most recently, in its 2023 budget proposal, the Biden administration asked for $88.2 billion in funding over five years on pandemic preparedness. That includes $40 billion for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the Department of Health and Human Services to \u201cinvest in advanced development and manufacturing of countermeasures for high priority threats and viral families, including vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and personal protective equipment (PPE),\u201d as well as $12.1 billion in research funding for the National Institutes of Health for vaccine, therapeutics, and diagnostics development.<\/p>\n

Bumb notes that the Biden proposal actually drew on the original Apollo plan put out by the bipartisan commission. That\u2019s part of why the new commission report is so notable: This is a group that\u2019s capable of driving policymaking at high levels.<\/p>\n

That said, Congress has yet to appropriate money at the commission\u2019s desired level to prevent the next pandemic. It\u2019s barely interested in further funding response to the current, ongoing pandemic, which is still killing hundreds of Americans a day. A group of senators recently cut a deal for $10 billion to fund Covid-19 response, after slashing funding the White House wanted to help fight the pandemic abroad \u2014 only to have Republicans block the deal on the Senate floor over separate immigration concerns. Even if the funding eventually passes, it\u2019ll have to wait until after the Easter recess ends on April 22.”<\/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":[588,409,483,1193,81,73,1483,50],"class_list":["post-7688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-government-spending","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-investment","tag-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688","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=7688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7689,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions\/7689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}