Biden Administration Announces Pandemic Prevention Partnership With 50 Countries

The AP (4/16, Seitz) reports, “President Joe Biden’s administration will help 50 countries identify and respond to infectious diseases, with the goal of preventing pandemics like the COVID-19 outbreak that suddenly halted normal life around the globe in 2020.” The United States “will offer support in the countries, most of them located in Africa and Asia, to develop better testing, surveillance, communication and preparedness for such outbreaks in those countries.” The plan “will help ‘prevent, detect and effectively respond to biological threats wherever they emerge,’ Biden said in a statement Tuesday.”