He said this would allow vaccines to be quickly and fairly distributed when the next disease hits. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Dr Hatchett said countries need to avoid “cycles of panic and neglect” where efforts and investments increase when new viruses emerge, and then fade away as the diseases are no longer deemed serious.
Other countries would do well to emulate Singapore’s pandemic preparedness efforts, he said, pointing to the Republic’s investments in tackling future pandemics through efforts such as the Programme for Research in Epidemic Preparedness and Response . Dr Hatchett also praised studies conducted by researchers here. He cited the example of the work of Prepare executive director Wang Linfa. The professor in the emerging diseases programme at Duke-NUS Medical School led a team that helped identify the Langya virus, which was detected in late 2018 and formally identified by scientists in 2022.
The mission to develop vaccines within 100 days of a new virus being identified – through tools such as a library of vaccine candidates that can be adapted to tackle different pathogens – is not unrealistic, he said. He noted that the first Covid-19 vaccines were developed in less than a year after the coronavirus first emerged.
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