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TRENDING TOPICS, MOST CREDIBLE STORIES | | #1 in U.S. News • 7 articles What is the Biden administration's plan for combating future pandemics? |  | |
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Biden administration unveils $65 billion plan to combat next pandemics after Covid.
CNBC (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 77% • 3 min read
The plan – released in a 27-page document titled "American Pandemic Preparedness: Transforming Our Capabilities" – calls for investing billions of dollars over the next decade to improve vaccines and therapeutics as well public health infrastructure, enhance the nation's real-time monitoring capabilities and make upgrades to personal protective equipment.
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The funds would be go to a new "mission control" office at the Department of Health and Human Services that's closely overseen by Congress. The U.S. would spend a total of $24.2 billion to develop and test new vaccines for a range of viruses and make improvements to vaccine distribution and manufacturing.
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Officials said the administration's call to invest $65 billion is "modest" when taking into account that the current pandemic has cost the U.S. an estimated $16 trillion in lost economic output. It's also smaller than what the nation spends on other programs, such as missile defense and anti-terrorism, which cost U.S. taxpayers $20 billion and $170 billion a year.
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The White House wants $65 billion for an 'Apollo'-style pandemic preparedness program.
Stat News (Center) • Factual Grade 77% • 3 min read - Top long-read
Preparing for the next pandemic: Early lessons from Covid-19.
Brookings Institute (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 82% • 12 min read
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| | | 372 votes, 43 comments Context: Leaded gasoline phased out worldwide recently, tracking the 1996 US ban. HIGHLIGHTED COMMENTS " No - The portability, reliability and efficiency of hydrocarbon fuels continue to dominate renewables and will remain essential to too many facets of modern life to eliminate them, unless we pull off a miracle like safe, portable nuclear fusion. Unfortunately, solar and battery technologies are getting too close to their physical limits to close the massive gap." " Yes - Yes, but with a giant asterisk. I do think many of the places we use fossil fuel will become unco..." " Unsure - It's possible that fossil fuels will be phased out, but not likely...at least not with ..." | | | #2 in U.S. News • 6 articles Why has Idaho activated the National Guard? | 
Idaho Gov. Brad Little announced Tuesday up to 370 additional personnel will be deployed to hospitals, including 150 guardsmen tasked with l...
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| | #1 in World News • 20 articles How did a man under surveillance manage to stab six people in New Zealand? |
Police had the man under surveillance when he entered the grocery store and it took them less than a minute to respond, but not before he was able to grab a knife f...
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| | #2 in World News • 17 articles Why is Japan's Prime Minister stepping down? |
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga told an executive meeting of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) that he would not run for president in internal elections at the end...
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| | #1 in Business News • 10 articles What does the August jobs report say about the US economy's recovery? |
The U.S. economy created the fewest jobs in seven months in August as hiring in the leisure and hospitality sector stalled amid a resurgence in COVID-19 infections. But other details of th...
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