Wild guess? Someone at DOD or DOS has a simulation that really has them spooked and wants to get civilian testing coverage in place fast, so they've thrown support behind Holmes who has a way to do it. Zombie jokes aside, it's really a pretty reasonable first step for pandemic resilience.
Or Holmes is an alien who wants to inject everyone with vegan mind control spiders.
Either way it's likely good for humanity in the long run.
> Someone at DOD or DOS has a simulation that really has them spooked and wants to get civilian testing coverage
NORTHCOM maybe (they're the geographic combatant commander in charge of DSCA planning for pandemic influenza). But despite the horror show portrayed about the military in all the zombie/pandemic movies, the military wants badly to avoid anything to do with this mission at all, so it wouldn't surprise me if they're trying to get contractors to do the heavy lifting for response planning.
Or Holmes is an alien who wants to inject everyone with vegan mind control spiders.
Either way it's likely good for humanity in the long run.