However with this and other agencies forming worldwide and new laws going into effect, pharmaceutical companies were using the securitization of influenza to their benefit. Pharmaceutical companies were bidding on contracts worth billions in exchange for promising the government that enough vaccines would be available should there be another outbreak. So while forming a new alliance to diagnose and prevent another pandemic had worldwide benefits hopefully preventing catastrophic loss of life, it also had a negative effect on the amount of funding we were putting worldwide into pharmaceutical companies to have a vaccine available in the event that a pandemic was to occur without knowing the strain of the virus that would take hold and if the vaccine would be enough
However with this and other agencies forming worldwide and new laws going into effect, pharmaceutical companies were using the securitization of influenza to their benefit. Pharmaceutical companies were bidding on contracts worth billions in exchange for promising the government that enough vaccines would be available should there be another outbreak. So while forming a new alliance to diagnose and prevent another pandemic had worldwide benefits hopefully preventing catastrophic loss of life, it also had a negative effect on the amount of funding we were putting worldwide into pharmaceutical companies to have a vaccine available in the event that a pandemic was to occur without knowing the strain of the virus that would take hold and if the vaccine would be enough