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February 14, 2021
By Raul DIEGO
Less than a month away from the one-year anniversary of the pandemic’s official declaration, policy wonks at the Atlantic Council together with former and current government officials are dissecting the “lessons” of the Covid-19 epidemic to advise the Biden administration on the steps to take in order to avert the next disaster.
Following a report by the Atlantic Council’s “Forward Defense” program housed within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security published in October, a panel comprised of the report’s author Franklin D. Kramer and others, including former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Jane Holl Lute and Jaclyn Levy, Director of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), discussed Kramer’s “key findings” and how these should influence White House policy moving forward.
The Coming Petdemic
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WHY YOU SHOULD CARE
Because our furry friends got us through this year. But what if they re the source of tomorrow s infections?
By Hillary Greene
December22, 2020
In this country of 330 million people, there are 160 million cats and dogs spread across 67 percent of households. Since 1960, 75 percent of human diseases have come from animals, and since 1990, the number of such disease outbreaks has tripled to about 300 per year
. The past decade “has witnessed unprecedented pandemic explosions,” according to a study by Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. David Morens of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. What if the next pandemic is also a “petdemic,” when our animal companions infect us and vice versa?
morning and touted america s nuclear arsenal in a series of tweets after giving extraordinary warning to north korea that he would unleash, quote, fire and fury if the threat to the u.s. continues. joining us now, former senator joe lieberman, co-chair of the blue ribbon study panel on biodefense. senator, good to see you. great to be here. your reactions to his words yesterday? well, i know that president trump s words were strong, but i m not upset about them because we ve tried for years and years, really decades, diplomatic language and a lot else with the north koreans and it hasn t worked. this goes back to the 90s when president clinton, in really good faith, neglectotiated an agreement with kim jong-un s father which gafs tve the north koreans billions of dollars in exchange for a promise to stop their nuclear program, put the brakes on, then stop it all