NEW: "As we start to emerge from this pandemic, we're going to have to rethink what US national security is all about" per In-Q-Tel Exec VP Dr Tara O'Toole at @CSIS

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"In a broader and richer conceptualization of national security...we're going to have to rethink the institutions, laws & practices that we need to keep out people healthy" per In-Q-Tel's O'Toole

MORE from In-Q-Tel's Exec VP Dr Tara O'Toole:

"The #COVID19 pandemic has proven that we cannot rely on stockpiles. We need to be able to make what we need when we need it & basically make it to order"

"Synthetic biology holds out the promise of making this come true" per O'Toole "We're going to have to rethink how we create supply chains that can be stable & resilient against all kinds of threats"

"We live in an age of epidemics. These epidemics are going to keep coming"

"More epidemics are coming our way" per In-Q-Tel's O'Toole "We have to have a much more strategic response"

"The technologies are emerging that will allow us to very rapidly design & then manufacture at scale the vaccines that we need"

"The reason we don't have them is a market failure" says In-Q-Tel's O'Toole

#China "They want to dominate biotech" per In-Q-Tel's O'Toole "They see this as key to the world economy" and are building primate research centers, gene banks & partnering tech & bio firms

"Right now, we have to invest in diagnostics [testing]" per In-Q-Tel's Dr. O'Toole "From what I can tell, right now we do not have the manufacturing capacity that we need to open up the economy again"

re: emerging from #COVID19

"Some could even read out like a pregnancy test-you could do it in your home" per O'Toole "Those would be very useful because people, as they emerge into society again, are going to need to be tested & retested...This isn't going to be over in one fell swoop"

Despite global competition, "The entire world of bio-medicine is based upon int'l collaboration on the open sharing of scientific ideas" per O'Toole "If we're going to get a [ #COVID19] vaccine, we need a vaccine for the world, it's going to take that kind of int'l collaboration"

"We have to find a way, difficult as it might be, to maintain the scientific openness and collaboration...while at the same time being realistic & steely eyed about the differences [with #China]" per O'Toole