Seth Berkley

And they should be optimizing the technology.

As you wrote in your book, Super Agers, one of the challenges with mRNA vaccines is they didn't seem to have really long duration of protection.

This is a solvable problem.

It just takes some more research and some more design work, et cetera.

And so we should have –

continued that work, continued the investment to get us to a place where we had these tools, because frankly, COVID is still around.

It's still causing deaths.

And we could have a strain that appears of either COVID-19 that is much more a disease causing and may escape from some of the protection, or we could have another coronavirus pop out of a bat somewhere in the world.

And so why we're not doing this

just seems to me to be crazy.

And the last point I'd make on this is I just wrote a paper a couple of days ago, and I made this observation.

We're cutting global health, we're cutting health investments, and at the same time, we're increasing defense investments.

So,

We're talking about a 12% increase to a trillion dollars.

I can't comment on whether that's a good use of money or not.

But if you ask the question, and this is a little apples and oranges, but it just puts it into perspective, how many Americans died during COVID?

So more Americans died during COVID than died in all wars ever.

after the Civil War till today.

So when you start talking about security, you can't have security without global health security.

And today, with synthetic biology and AI, we are at enormous risk, not just for naturally occurring infections or laboratory accidents, but also for bioterrorism.