“We don’t have a national active monitoring system for pandemic potential diseases, and it’s kind of crazy…”
FDA
Steven Roach of the Food Animal Concerns Trust, as quoted in STAT’s article on the USDA and FDA turf battles that are hampering responses to outbreaks like H5N1 bird flu:
I would say the biggest problem is we don’t have a national active monitoring system for pandemic potential diseases, and it’s kind of crazy that we don’t after Covid.
