Preventing Pandemics

As January 2021 was coming to a close, COVID-19 was closing in on 100 million infections and already had surpassed 2.1 million deaths worldwide, including well over 25 million infections and 420,000 deaths in the United States. When DARPA initiated research on rapid disease response more than a decade ago, no one could predict what diseases would emerge and when, only that they would. Now, the results of these DARPA projects are playing a leading and catalytic role in today’s fight against COVID-19. Check out this white paper to read about DARPA’s progress growing pandemic-stopping technologies.