"To reduce COVID-19 transmission, achieve and sustain a 'new normal,' and preempt future emergencies, the nation needs to build and sustain a greatly improved public health infrastructure, including a comprehensive, permanently funded system for testing, surveillance, and mitigation measures that does not currently exist," wrote the authors, led by David Michaels, PhD, of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. January 6, 2022