{"id":53634,"date":"2022-10-19T10:34:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53634"},"modified":"2022-10-19T10:34:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:34:19","slug":"release-of-the-presidents-national-biodefense-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53634","title":{"rendered":"Release of the President\u2019s National Biodefense Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>10\/19\/2022 12:59 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>Today the Administration is releasing its National Biodefense Strategy, which establishes a roadmap to help us plan for and protect against future biological threats, whether naturally occurring, accidental, or deliberate in origin.\u00a0 It outlines a bold vision by transforming the Federal Government\u2019s ability to prevent, detect, prepare for, respond to, and recover from outbreaks, together with our partners \u2013 including our international partners.<\/p>\n<p>Infectious diseases that cross borders and disrupt societies are a threat to national security and global stability.\u00a0 Over the last two years, we have seen the impact across America and around the world of diseases like COVID-19, which has resulted in millions of deaths and trillions of dollars of economic losses globally.\u00a0 Beyond COVID-19, the global community is concurrently fighting outbreaks of monkeypox, polio, Ebola, highly pathogenic avian influenza, and other infectious diseases, stretching thin global resources and demonstrating gaps in our current preparedness \u2013 challenges that are aggravated by changes in global travel, land use, and climate.\u00a0 Despite a nearly universal ban, some nations and groups continue seeking to turn the destructive power of disease to their own ends by developing biological weapons.\u00a0 Preventing, detecting, and responding to biological threats regardless of\u00a0source is a significant challenge \u2013 but it is one we cannot afford not to meet.<\/p>\n<p>The National Biodefense Strategy recognizes that domestic action alone is insufficient to protect America\u2019s health and security in an interconnected world.\u00a0 It directs\u00a0greater international attention and focus, including expanding\u00a0sustainable\u00a0and transparent\u00a0capacity building,\u00a0improving country-led and adequately financed health security, as well as\u00a0actions\u00a0to prevent the acquisition and use of biological weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department will play a critical role in advancing these efforts.\u00a0 In order to\u00a0achieve these goals, we must work together with our foreign partners to support and strengthen capacities to prevent, detect, and effectively respond to biological threats at their source and encourage prioritization of these issues around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/19\/2022 12:59 PM EDT &nbsp; Antony&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53635,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53634\/revisions\/53635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}