This is smart! "Fauci Wants to Start Fighting Next Pandemic Now."

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https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210726/fauci-wants-to-start-fighting-next-pandemic-now#1

In an effort to avoid another pandemic in the coming years, Dr. Anthony Fauci wants to launch an ambitious plan to make prototype vaccines that could protect against pathogens from 20 families of viruses that threaten human lives.

It won't come cheap, with the cost totaling "a few billion dollars" a year, Fauci said, and the first round of results wouldn't emerge for at least five years. Also, a huge number of scientists would be needed to conduct the necessary studies.

"It would require pretty large sums of money," Fauci told The New York Times. "But after what we've been through, it's not out of the question."

Using research tools that have worked with COVID-19, scientists would study the molecular structure of each virus, searching for the spots where antibodies must strike it, and figuring out how to prompt the body to make those antibodies.

"If we get the funding, which I believe we will, it likely will start in 2022," Fauci said, adding that he has been pushing the idea "in discussions with the White House and others."

[underpants]

1. ✅

[milestogo]

2. Now that we've seen how devastating viruses are to the economy,

our government should realize that this is a bargan.

Now if only we could launch a war on Stupidity.

[RKP5637]

4. Yes, we need a "Fix Stupid" vaccine! Stunning, isn't it, how prevalent the Stupid Virus has become!

[Bleacher Creature]

3. A few billion dollars a year?

To avoid something like we're going through now (and have been for 20 months)??

That would be a bargain.

[Politicub]

5. Yes! This is forward-looking leadership.

And, like President Biden's proposed social infrastructure proposal, it builds an annuity for future generations.

[madville]

6. They could probably stretch any proposed budget even further if they

Contract some of the research and development out to established labs in China...............

I'm kidding of course, let's not do that just to be on the safe side.

[Liberal In Texas]

7. Let's say we could get this through congress.

If past experience is any indicator, if the repubs get back in power again they'll just kill the program(s). Like what TFG did pulling our scientists in China before the pandemic and what he did to plans left for him by Obama and previous administrations.

It is a great idea though. We might even get international cooperation.

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10. Sadly, that is likely what would happen. "We're not gonna spend money on fad and hoax prevention."

[FakeNoose]

8. It's a great idea but the U.S Government will never do it

Maybe somebody like Jeff Bezos can afford to drop a few bucks for something like this.

[RKP5637]

9. Yeah, lunch money would do it!!!