Polling indicates restoring the funds to prepare for future pandemics would be a political winner.
’s request for tens of billions of dollars in funding for the prevention of future pandemics.
“It’s vital that we start with an initial outlay for $15 to $20 billion to jumpstart these efforts,” Eric Lander, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told reporters in a conference call on Friday.would aim to ensure the rapid development — in 100 days or less — of vaccines against any future virus and also work to massively speed up production, guaranteeing enough vaccines to inoculate the United States within 130 days and the world within 200 days.
At the same time, Democratic strategists have also begun circulating polling about the popularity of spending on pandemic prevention and fretting about the potential political blowback of failing to fully fund efforts at a time when the coronavirus pandemic — which has killed almost 650,000 Americans and repeatedly shaken the foundations of the nation’s economy — remains the top issue for voters.
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