What we must do to prepare for the next pandemic, a guest commentary

David Beier
4 min readJan 29, 2021

By David Beier and Bob Kocher

This article first ran in BioCentury on January 28, 2021

The U.S. is not ready for the next pandemic. Our public health infrastructure and planning process are not up to the challenge, our capacity to treat at-risk citizens is insufficient, and we are not making enough of a new category of antiviral that can treat emerging viruses: mAbs derived from patients.

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David Beier

Managing Director, Bay City Capital, San Francisco, CA. Previously Chief Domestic Policy to Vice President Al Gore. Senior corporate officer DNA and Amgen