The production of vaccines currently requires the slaughter of millions of animals every year, and the laboratories running those processes employ enormous numbers of people across every level of administration and research.

Dr. Tess Lawrie is calling for a deep and thorough investigation into all of it. Pandemic preparedness has become a racket, with stockpiles of viral material sitting in labs ready to sustain the cycle indefinitely. That infrastructure needs to be examined from top to bottom, from administrative staff to the researchers themselves, and the accountability needs to happen before it is quietly preserved and repurposed for the next emergency.

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