Biden to Unveil Plan for Next Pandemic While Seeking $88 Billion in Funds
As soon as this month, a revised National Biodefense Strategy is expected to provide clearer guidance on how the US government should respond to future health threats.
A resident receives a Covid-19 booster shot at a vaccine clinic inside Trinity Evangelic Lutheran Church in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, on April 5. The Biden administration’s preparedness plan is expected to call for vaccine development within 100 days of a new threat.
Photographer: Hannah Beier/BloombergThe Biden administration is preparing a new defense strategy against pandemics and other biological threats that applies lessons from Covid-19 and puts the White House at the center of any future US response.
Research suggests there’s a 50/50 chance of another Covid-like pandemic — or one that is more deadly — over the next 25 years, according to a senior administration official who spoke under the condition of anonymity as the strategy isn’t yet public, and the administration’s plan is the result of more than a year of work by US national security and public health experts to improve the nation’s framework for preparedness, response and recovery.