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Professor Isabel Oliver, the UKHSA’s chief scientific officer, said the UK was “absolutely” better prepared than for Covid, but added: “However it should not be taken for granted.
Asked whether the UK is ready for a bird flu pandemic in particular, Prof Oliver said: “We have absolutely been stepping up our preparedness efforts for some time now, and there is critical work happening here at Porton Down, for example to develop the assays [tests] that we need to allow us to understand the virus, how that might affect people.”
The global “100 days mission”, launched at the UK’s presidency of the G7 in 2021, is designed to create a vaccine ready to go into people’s arms within 100 days of a new pandemic threat being identified., and Dame Jenny acknowledged that the 100-day target was “really stretching the ambition – but if we’re going to prevent a pandemic that’s exactly what we need to do”.
Dame Jenny said if the next threat was “Disease X” then “we’ve got to do a lot of [work] very quickly as it arises. For some pathogens it would be easier to achieve that 100 day target than others”. Prof Oliver said they were opening the doors to VDEC at Porton Down because “we are keen for you to understand the work that we’re doing to make sure we are all protected”.
Dr Hallis said: “For us the key thing is really ensuring how much we are doing today, at peacetime, to get us in a position where we respond more quickly in the case of an emerging new virus…
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