policymakers working in concert with their counterparts in foreign governments and multilateral institutions. This strategy and these recommendations will only succeed with leadership from U.S. and global pandemic preparedness followed by those related to prevention, detection, and response. The Task Force has organized its recommendations into four sections: a strategy for improving U.S. The painful lessons learned should make governments wise enough to avoid such costly mistakes and instead take preemptive steps to advance pandemic preparedness in the United States and abroad. The global response has exposed the inherent weaknesses and inequalities in pandemic preparedness and response it should be a transformative moment. The coronavirus pandemic is a vivid and painful example of the devastation that emerging pathogens can cause to lives and livelihoods worldwide. As harmful as this coronavirus has been, a novel influenza could be even worse, transmitting even more easily, killing millions more people, and destabilizing governments and economies alike.
Those outbreaks can evolve into epidemics, one of which could explode into a pandemic that spreads worldwide and last months or years. 94 Pathogens frequently emerge some jump from animal to human and spread swiftly. World leaders have called the coronavirus pandemic a “once-in-100 year” crisis, but there is no reason to expect that to be true. health, economic, and strategic interests. The Task Force finds that pandemics are inevitable, possibly imminent, and likely to be devastating to U.S. Preventing a reoccurrence of these failures in future pandemics will require major policy and institutional changes to bolster the foundations of U.S.
government and many other national governments long ago recognized mass outbreaks of infectious disease as a global and national security concern and planned for the inevitability of future pandemics, but they failed to adequately fund and execute those plans in the face of this coronavirus pandemic.
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