With significant increases and meaningful investments in U.S. Centers for Disease Control and State Department global health programs, President Biden’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year offers the promise of renewing our country’s role as a leader of infectious disease responses that can detect, prevent and contain public health threats where they emerge.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America and its HIV Medicine Association support universal removal of the slur “red man syndrome” and recommends replacing it with “vancomycin infusion reaction,” a term that emphasizes pathophysiology over visual appearance on skin.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations that fully immunized people can resume most daily activities without masks or concern for physical distancing, except where required by laws and policies, reflect the remarkable protective benefit of COVID-19 vaccines.

More than 60 Congressional representatives from both sides of the aisle have called on House appropriators to significantly increase federal resources in the year ahead to tackle the growing crisis of infections that do not respond to available treatments.