What makes this plan different from the Bush and Obama administration’s? Lander: The major difference is where science has gotten to right now.
We’re at a cusp. Our pandemic response has benefited tremendously from scientific advances, like mRNA vaccines, that just wouldn't have even been conceivable five years ago.
So previous pandemic plans could not have thought about transforming our capabilities so that we could think about producing vaccines in 100 days, or producing therapeutics or diagnostics at very large scales and cheaply.
In five years, we can, and we must, do so much better. There’s an opportunity right now to make sure that infectious disease outbreaks in the future don't turn into pandemics.