The president will be discussing his national strategy for a pandemic flu.

This strategy is based on three fundamental principles.

First, finding a flu outbreak as soon as it appears, then containing and treating it to the best extent possible.

Second, developing strong protections like vaccines and antivirals, TAMO flu, for instance, is one that can be used to treat it.

And responding quickly to save lives.

This builds upon what we've already done as a country that is leading the way when it comes to addressing the threat from

a pandemic flu outbreak. We have already been acting to create a vaccine and stockpile protective

medicines such as antivirals. I should have prefaced this video, but I couldn't, you know, have my voiceover.

This is from 2005. This is the George Bush former press secretary, Scott, I forget what his last name is now.

2005, 15 years before the pandemic, the COVID pandemic, listen to what he's saying.

Accelerating efforts to develop the next generation of vaccine technology.

That means using cell-based techniques versus the egg-based,

because we believe that if we can move to the cell-based technique,

we have the manufacturing capacity to be able to develop or mass-produce that vaccine quickly. And that's going to be important. We don't know,

well, we do know from history that there have been outbreaks from the bird flu. We don't know what

strain of virus might eventually lead to a possible outbreak, but it's something we need to take seriously. And that's

why the president has been leading the way. We've expanded our stockpile of antivirals to over

four million courses by the end of 2005. Listen to this part. 2005. We're enhancing domestic

preparedness. Remember, we've provided over five billion to states and localities for public health and medical preparedness since 2001. We've requested some

70 million in the 06 budget for mobile hospital surge capacity, emergency medical

personnel. And we've added influenza viruses with pandemic potential to the list of quarantinable diseases.

Quarantineable diseases. I remember when COVID broke out and they're like, oh, we have a

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