Microbiology Society
The Microbiology Society has welcomed the opportunity from the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee to respond to the inquiry on emerging diseases and lessons learned from COVID-19.
The Society consulted with its members that were directly involved in the national response to the pandemic to co-ordinate this response.
It was reported to the Microbiology Society that:
- The UK remains poorly prepared for an emerging disease outbreak. This is in part due to chronic underfunding of public health services.
- There is a lack of long-term, sustained funding programmes for scientific research on diseases with pandemic potential.
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