The New American Last week, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. set out his plan to “restore trust” in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Writing in The Wall Street Journal, he placed one idea at the very top of his agenda: a new Biothreat Radar. The tool, he said, would “detect and defeat infectious diseases” through enhanced respiratory surveillance and the latest molecular technologies.
Kennedy pointed to the global reach of the CDC:
The CDC also now operates in 63 countries, monitoring biothreats before they reach our shores. Its Biothreat Radar Detection System — an advanced early-detection tool — can spot pathogens like H5N1 [bird flu] or MERS [Middle East respiratory syndrome] early enough to prevent catastrophe.
Notably, that reach also reflects the CDC’s ongoing collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), where its laboratories and experts feed into global networks that track emerging pathogens (more on that later).
Skeptics were quick to observe that no such program seems to exist yet. But the vision is not a fantasy. It is written directly into next year’s CDC 2026 budget request (pdf here), which commits, among other priorities, to
protecting Americans from infectious diseases by creating enhanced respiratory threat detection and a Biothreat Radar program that incorporates progress made in advanced molecular detection to rapidly detect emerging threats.
In its design, the project mirrors the World Economic Forum’s “Biothreat Radar,” launched under its BRIDGE Alliance (Biosecurity Readiness through Intelligence, Data, and Global Engagement) last year.
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