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> The top White House official responsible for leading the U.S. response in the event of a deadly pandemic has left the administration, and the global health se
by RVuRnvbM2e 7y ago
> The top White House official responsible for leading the U.S. response in the event of a deadly pandemic has left the administration, and the global health security team he oversaw has been disbanded under a reorganization by national security adviser John Bolton.
Not sure how much more explicit that 2018 WaPo article can be.
- ineedasername 7y agoFrom what I can tell though, that was more of an oversight team at the NSC level though, not the actual CDC folks or HHS folks that would really be dealing with this stuff. Again, I'm not saying that isn't bad, but it's not the same as saying the "pandemic response unit" was disbanded, which doesn't seem to be the official name of any actual unit, and it's a phrase that seems to imply that all of our pandemic response capabilities were dismantled. They weren't.