Opinion: It’s time to treat pandemics as threats to national security

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Pandemics like the great influenza of 1918-1919 and Covid-19 are often viewed and treated as health care challenges. That view, however, is far too narrow. They should be viewed and combated as threats to national security, too.

Why treat pandemics as national security threats? Because that’s what they are. Framing the danger this way would inform and motivate reforms that strengthen our pandemic defenses and reduce the devastation pandemics inflict.

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