The Obama administration did a number of things right in response to the Ebola epidemic. They quickly ramped up US capacity to treat Ebola patients, delivered s

The Obama administration did a number of things right in response to the Ebola epidemic. They quickly ramped up US capacity to treat Ebola patients, delivered substantial resources (people and money) to affected countries, established a presence on the ground in numerous countries specifically for pandemic readiness and staffed a position on the NSC for interagency pandemic readiness. The Trump administration cut that position from the NSC and substantially scaled back the presence in other countries. So, there has been leadership in this area (and others) in the past.