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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,036 posts)
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 02:01 PM Mar 2020

Experts say Trump's decision to disband pandemic team hindered coronavirus response

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.

https://news.yahoo.com/global-health-experts-trumps-decision-100037331.html

Stable genius.

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Experts say Trump's decision to disband pandemic team hindered coronavirus response (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2020 OP
Who are we kidding genxlib Mar 2020 #1
No shit. GeorgeGist Mar 2020 #2

genxlib

(5,528 posts)
1. Who are we kidding
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 02:18 PM
Mar 2020

Even if they were there, they would have been ignored and sidelined.

Vindman was on the Security Council the whole time but yet Trump still thought that a stooge out of Nunes office was his Ukraine specialist.

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