Catching up after playing onsite med and PH for a 2 week activity (yes, there was COVID). Planning for the next Pandemic is imperative but also somewhat far from the minds of too many in Congress. Perhaps that's because they've just made their peace with COVID-19, and are willing to accept 300-500 daily deaths (or claim those numbers are inflated). Perhaps they think there are more pressing issues. We need a national strategy to protect THIS country, but we need a cooperative and coherent world-wide agreement and pathway to prevent 6M unnecessary deaths in the future.
Welcome back. Reauthorization of the Pandemic All Hazards Preparedness Act is due this year, so I think there are still opportunities on the Hill to advance health security.
I've been reading the reports, but I don't have any access to the Hill save the popular press. That means I've little way of gauging what the folks in Washington are thinking, save what I hear and see in terms of how they're handling the current pandemic. I'm afraid the mortality rate has become normalized to so many of the leadership, unless someone on their staff is raising it as an issue, because it's not longer a topic in the 24 hour news cycle.
Please keep us posted if you are plugged into the process!
I am grateful for the information. It is reliable, accurate and easy to understand.
Jackie
Thank you for the link to your article in Foreign Affairs. It was excellent. I only hope that it attracts the attention that we need!
Catching up after playing onsite med and PH for a 2 week activity (yes, there was COVID). Planning for the next Pandemic is imperative but also somewhat far from the minds of too many in Congress. Perhaps that's because they've just made their peace with COVID-19, and are willing to accept 300-500 daily deaths (or claim those numbers are inflated). Perhaps they think there are more pressing issues. We need a national strategy to protect THIS country, but we need a cooperative and coherent world-wide agreement and pathway to prevent 6M unnecessary deaths in the future.
Welcome back. Reauthorization of the Pandemic All Hazards Preparedness Act is due this year, so I think there are still opportunities on the Hill to advance health security.
I've been reading the reports, but I don't have any access to the Hill save the popular press. That means I've little way of gauging what the folks in Washington are thinking, save what I hear and see in terms of how they're handling the current pandemic. I'm afraid the mortality rate has become normalized to so many of the leadership, unless someone on their staff is raising it as an issue, because it's not longer a topic in the 24 hour news cycle.
Please keep us posted if you are plugged into the process!