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