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If elected president, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden pledged that he would re-launch "PREDICT," a program launched after the 2005 H1N1 virus that was designed to help detect and combat potential pandemic threats like Covid-19.
The program, which was shut down in 2019, focused specifically on the detection and discovery of "zoonotic diseases."
"It did not have to be this bad. That's the greatest tragedy of all. Donald Trump's failures didn't just start in July, when he simply gave up in the face of surging infections. They didn't just begin in June, May, April, and March, when he refused to take basic public health measures to lay the groundwork for an effective recovery. Or even in January and February, when he ignored repeated warnings about Covid-19," Biden said in the statement.
Florida reports more than 2,500 new Covid-19 cases and 14 deaths
Does anyone think we should leave ourselves unprotected like Trump decided when he shut down the program in 2019?