Having learned the lessons of the years running up to the outbreak of Covid, the UKHSA is planning for a conflict whose aggressor is not yet known 🔎 Analysis by janemerrick23
On a rainy day last week, I was one of a number of journalists invited to see inside the normally top-secret scientific laboratories at Porton Down, run by the UK Health Security Agency .UKHSA’s Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre
, was the referral by its deputy director Dr Bassam Hallis, to the current status of “peacetime” – as distinct, quite clearly, from the war footing of the Covid pandemic. Having learned the lessons of the years running up to the outbreak of Covid – when the UK and other governments prepared for a flu pandemic and little else – the UKHSA is planning for a conflict whose aggressor is not yet known., or it could be what scientists refer to as “Disease X” – an “unknown unknown” pathogen against which there is currently no treatment or vaccine.is likely to conclude – for Covid, the UK Government and its scientists are keen to show they are ready for the next outbreak.
While many people would rather not think about anything to do with viruses and infectious diseases ever again after the last three years, it is reassuring that the efforts to prevent another public health catastrophe are so strenuous.
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