News HighlightCommission Awarded Silver Telly for Germ Warfare: A Very Graphic History
The Commission is proud to announce that we are a recipient of a Silver Telly Award for the audiovisual version of our graphic novel, Germ Warfare: A Very Graphic History. The audiovisual won in the Non-Broadcast, Craft-Voiceover category of the 41st Annual Telly Awards.
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October 9, 2020
The U.S. Spent Billions of Dollars on Biodefense. COVID-19 Was the Attack it Never Saw Coming
In 2014, an independent, bipartisan Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense was convened to study ways to improve America’s biodefenses. The panel, chaired by Tom Ridge, the nation’s first DHS secretary and Joe Lieberman, a former Democratic Senator from Connecticut, found that biological threats—whether they occur naturally, accidentally or intentionally—had the potential to cause mass loss of life and unrelenting damage to the economy, societal stability, and global security. In 2016, they issued 87 recommendations to the Trump Administration for improving America’s biodefenses.
September 25, 2020
The Biothreat After COVID-19: Engineered Pathogens, More Zoonotic Outbreaks
Biotech experts cautioned that the next pandemic could be worse than COVID-19 as emerging pathogens increasingly jump from animals to humans, the number of outbreaks grows as government preparedness lags, and nefarious actors can use the same advancements as researchers to “engineer pathogens with increasing sophistication” and “catastrophic” results.
September 25, 2020
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense prepares for next pandemic
Time is of the essence, said former U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, co-chairman of the commission, because the next pandemic is coming and it may be worse than COVID-19 as the risk of natural and human-generated threats continue to increase in number and speed.
September 22, 2020
Focus of Next Commission Meeting: Innovative Science and Technology Solutions to Address Emerging Biological Threats
The Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense will premiere a virtual meeting this Thursday, September 24 entitled, The Biological Event Horizon: No Return or Total Resilience. The event horizon is clear – either disease continues to devastate American lives and livelihoods, or the country develops the capacity to fight and overcome every disease that comes its way.
September 18, 2020
Dr. Asha M. George: Ensuring public’s trust in COVID-19 vaccine is critical part of pandemic fight
I fought in Desert Storm, the massive military offensive in the Persian Gulf. Although it began nearly 30 years ago, I see parallels between decisions I made on the battlefield and decisions all Americans will have to make about a COVID-19 vaccine.
