According to Biden, the US needs to start planning for another epidemic because it will occur.
On June 21, 2022, in Washington, DC, Vice President Joe Biden discussed the Covid-19 vaccine for children in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week approved Covid-19 vaccinations for kids under the age of five. Children can begin receiving the vaccinations this week after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) approved the move over the weekend.
According to President Joe Biden, the US needs to prepare for its upcoming pandemic response.
US funding for pandemic planning must begin, according to President Joe Biden.
The White House has suggested allotting $82 billion for pandemic response plans.
One in two chances that another pandemic may occur in the next 25 years, according to some academics.
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden issued a dire warning, stating that the US must begin preparing for the possibility of a future epidemic.
When questioned about convincing Congress to fund COVID-19 vaccines for infants and toddlers, he responded, “We do need more money,” at a White House press conference. The funding for the vaccine supply, according to the president, will be available till the year’s end.
“However, we require more funding for other things outside child immunizations. Eventually, more funding will be required to prepare for the second epidemic, “added he.
He continued, “There will be another pandemic.” “We must plan ahead.”
According to a senior official quoted by Bloomberg last week, the Biden administration will soon announce a revised “biodefense policy” to strengthen America’s pandemic response.
In his budget proposal for 2023, Biden advocates devoting nearly $82 billion over five years to biological threat mitigation.
One of its key objectives is to establish the conditions necessary for the US to produce efficient disease treatments and vaccinations within 100 days of its discovery.
Additionally, the funds would be used to strengthen the healthcare system and increase threat identification studies.
Even while the globe has frequently gone through protracted periods without a pandemic of the magnitude of COVID-19, researchers claim that over the past 50 years, the rate of new disease outbreaks among humans has been significantly increasing.
According to a study from 2021 that appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, the likelihood of such outbreaks would increase by three times during the following several decades, according to Duke’s Global Health Institute.
The Center for Global Development also asserts that it is unlikely that COVID-19 will be a “once in a lifetime” pandemic. Instead, think tank analysts forecast a one in two possibilities that during the next 25 years, another pandemic as lethal as the current one will spread.
The world “got lucky” with COVID-19’s comparatively low fatality rate, according to Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, who also urged the globe to put together a worldwide team of experts who can monitor outbreaks and assist nations in improving their epidemic response.
The SARS virus emerged in 2002, and the MERS virus emerged in 2012. Although it propagated more slowly than the coronavirus, it caused more deaths.
Gates stated previously in June, “I have to say, given the toll of this epidemic, 20 million dead globally, a million in the US, and it could have been a lot more fatal.”
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We were fortunate that each case’s death rate was less than 0.2 per cent.
