You're right, I missed it. But I'm still not clear on what exactly happened here. Take this article from the Atlantic: > With Ziemer gone, oversight of the s

You're right, I missed it. But I'm still not clear on what exactly happened here. Take this article from the Atlantic: > With Ziemer gone, oversight of the strategy [national biodefense] now falls to Andrea Hall, the senior director for weapons of mass destruction and biodefense, according to an administration official with knowledge of the matter. Hall had already been working side-by-side with Ziemer, both figuratively and literally—they sat in neighboring offices. Both testified before the bipartisan Blue Ribbon Panel for Biodefense in November last year, during which Hall said that, “Making America safer in the biosphere is a ... key priority for this administration.” > ... > She also oversees the remaining members of Ziemer’s now-defunct directorate of global health security and biodefense—many of whom carry substantial expertise in pandemic preparedness. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/05/white-house-loses-global-health-security-lead-as-a-new-ebola-outbreak-hits/560195/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/05/white-hou... These details don't appear to be in the Snopes article. Nor does the Atlantic's discussion of how previous administrations have tried, in fits and starts, to (re)organize the team. > When Obama became president, the responsibility for thinking about epidemics and biological threats was initially split between two other teams—one focusing on resilience, and another on weapons of mass destruction. But over time, that duty was once again packaged into its own directorate—one that lasted into the Trump administration, and that Ziemer took over. “Eliminating it as its own explicit function is definitely a danger,” says Inglesby.