The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impacts on human lives as well as economic and social stability. The United States has a complicated history with biosecurity. The September 11th terror attacks uncovered various weaknesses in the national biosecurity infrastructure that have persisted into the current pandemic. This study explores the implications of framing the infectious disease biothreat as a security threat to improve our capabilities while protecting against the potential accelerated threat of bioterrorism in the post-COVID-19 era. To counter the increasing biothreats, the United States must invest in revamping the biodefense infrastructure to increase our resilience to various biothreats.

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作为安全威胁的传染病：未来应急准备的心理框架

COVID-19大流行的出现对人类生活以及经济和社会稳定产生了重大影响。美国在生物安全方面有着复杂的历史。9 月 11 日的恐怖袭击暴露了国家生物安全基础设施中的各种弱点，这些弱点一直持续到当前的大流行中。本研究探讨了将传染病生物威胁定义为安全威胁的意义，以提高我们的能力，同时在后 COVID-19 时代防范潜在的加速生物恐怖主义威胁。为了应对日益增加的生物威胁，美国必须投资改造生物防御基础设施，以增强我们对各种生物威胁的抵御能力。