"The giant bureaucracy" isn't the problem, in itself. The current administration in the white house, however, is. A lot of factors came together, hampering th

"The giant bureaucracy" isn't the problem, in itself. The current administration in the white house, however, is. A lot of factors came together, hampering the response. Trump has fired lots of experts, many others left for other reasons and Trump has problems hiring Replacements. He disbanded that office in the White House. On top of that he didn't take the issue seriously at all. I would say that in early January it wasn't yet clear this would become a serious respiratory pandemic. Maybe not even to US intelligence services or the Chinese government. But late January and early February it dawned on most people (including me).