The U.S. could have vaccines, therapies, and other medical countermeasures ready for future disease outbreaks under a bill introduced Thursday in the Senate.
https://twitter.com/BLaw/status/1424062804726796296
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/pharma-and-life-sciences/disease-x-a-target-of-new-bill-to-spur-therapies-vaccines-1
"Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci stated that the concept of Disease X would encourage WHO projects to focus their research efforts on entire classes of viruses (e.g. flaviviruses), instead of just individual strains (e.g. zika virus), thus improving WHO capability to respond to unforeseen strains.[7] In 2020, it was speculated, including among some of the WHO's own expert advisors, that COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus strain, met the requirements to be the first Disease X"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_X