Are both authors players in the scam? I really don't need to go much beyond the title on this one:

"After 2020, pandemic preparedness budget cuts should be unthinkable"

by Dr. Tom Frieden and Sen. Tom Daschle — 07/20/21

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/563836-after-2020-pandemic-preparedness-budget-cuts-should-be-unthinkable

Some basis:

Quote from Peter Daszak, March 27, 2015:

"Until an infectious disease crisis is very real, present, and at an emergency threshold, it is often largely ignored. To sustain the funding base beyond the crisis, he said, we need to increase public understanding of the need for MCMs [medical countermeasures] such as a pan-influenza or pan-coronavirus vaccine. A key driver is the media, and the economics follow the hype. We need to use that hype to our advantage to get to the real issues. Investors will respond if they see profit at the end of process."

Developing MCMs for Coronaviruses. Rapid Medical Countermeasure Response to Infectious Diseases: Enabling Sustainable Capabilities Through Ongoing Public- and Private-Sector Partnerships: Workshop Summary.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK349040/

Tom Frieden is former director of the CDC, president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

https://resolvetosavelives.org/

https://www.cfr.org/expert/tom-frieden