The National Biodefense Strategy, which was updated last year to reflect lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, overlooks threats posed by animal production and use in the US, according to an editorial by Ann Linder, a researcher at Harvard Law School, and Dale Jamieson, a professor at New York University. The biodefense document frames threats as external, glosses over the risks posed by wet markets in the US, and fails to acknowledge the zoonotic disease risks posed by exhibitions and fairs, Linder and Jamieson write.
