Ask HN: Will we see investments in fighting infectious diseases?

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After September 13 2011 US alone spent trillions of public money to fight terrorism. The "war on terror" started.

Since coronavirus already killed more people in US than september 13 attacks, is it reasonable to predict that a similar amount of public money will be used to fight infectious diseases?

Will we see a "war on diseases" ?

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There's sure to be people who are now aware of this as an important area and are learning about it, who will now go into this for their entire careers.

"Glasgow's first Intensive Therapy Unit was developed, consequent to a large outbreak of poliomyelitis in Denmark, with many of the patients there requiring artificial respiration." https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pathology-Human-Infections-Associat... This led to a pathology department, and my grandfather working in that his whole life (specialising in infectious diseases), and then writing a 3 volume encyclopedia on the subject: "The Pathology of Human Viral Infections and Associated Conditions"

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