Forewarned, forearmed: to be prepared is half the victory against the next pandemic

We need to increase the sustained mobilization of resources and know-how to build modern infrastructure capable of facing the upcoming challenges of infectious disease events and associated public health concerns.

To be competitive in today's vaccine development, we need to be capable of producing mRNA, DNA-based, vectored-based, and protein-based vaccines and promote novel vaccination strategies, write Sen. Rosa Galvez, Gary Kobinger, and Jacques Corbeil. Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY ISG SENATOR ROSA GALVEZ, GARY KOBINGER, JACQUES CORBEIL

March 31, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how ruefully unprepared we were. However, we must forgo the blame game. We must make sure we learned the lessons, have in hand what is needed, and protect those at risk. How a society treats its most vulnerable is the measure of its humanity. In the aftermath, we s...

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