> lack of coordination between the CDC and FDA? Exactly why it matters that there was no one in the Whitehouse whose job it was to coordinate the Coronavirus r

> lack of coordination between the CDC and FDA? Exactly why it matters that there was no one in the Whitehouse whose job it was to coordinate the Coronavirus response. Our current situation was predictable. This was written in 2018: Around the same time that the administration proposed rescinding the funds, the National Security Council dissolved its biosecurity directorate, a small team focused exclusively on global health security threats and led by a director often referred to as the Ebola czar. Again, it’s worth remembering why that office came into existence — a hard lesson. Without a central office to coordinate federal efforts by many agencies, progress was slow the last time the world confronted Ebola. “It took months of wrangling to put things in place,” Mr. Konyndyk said. “If the only way to get resources is through long negotiations with committees, you are giving disease a head start.” It was based on that realization that the Obama administration established the biosecurity directorate and named the first Ebola coordinator. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/opinion/ebola-outbreak-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/opinion/ebola-outbreak-tr...