Political Hacks vs Heroic Public Servants: Why The US Wasn’t Ready To Respond To The Coronavirus

Posted By: Mark Taylor March 12, 2020

“Are we ready to respond to a pandemic? I fear the answer is no,” one senior U.S. health official said in 2018.

The very next day that Global Health Security Unit she worked with was shut down by a senior Trump administration official.

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