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[MikeCr]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/03/18/coronavirus-did-president-trumps-decision-disband-global-pandemic-office-hinder-response/5064881002/

WASHINGTON—In May 2018, President Donald Trump’s biodefense preparedness adviser warned that a flu pandemic was the country’s No. 1 health security threat, and the U.S. was not prepared.

“We know that it cannot be stopped at the border,” Luciana Borio, director of medical and biodefense preparedness at the National Security Council, said at a symposium that day.

Borio left the Trump administration in 2019. Other high-level global health experts headed for the exits even earlier, after the White House dismantled the National Security Council’s global health security office.

The demise of that elite team is now under scrutiny as the Trump administration struggles to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump bristled when asked about his decision to disband the office at a news conference in the Rose Garden on Friday.

“I just think it's a nasty question,” the president responded. “And when you say ‘me,' I didn't do it. ... I don't know anything about it.”

[kraki]

Thank you.

They are interesting documents with many good recommendations.
Like the 9-11 Commission report, these documents get written, filed away, and remain largely unimplemented.

I don't view that so much as a political problem, because the inertia extends back through a couple of administrations, but rather a lack of follow-through at the institutional level (FDA and CDC primarily in this case). Career bureaucrats shouldn't set policy, but they are in a better position to make sure things get done.

Politicians have the attention span of a gnat and are always shifting focus - a lot of which is caused by an equally flighty media. It shouldn't be that way, but sadly, it largely is.