You cannot say this about the United States. Both of the prior administrations developed detailed pandemic response plans.
Bush’s plan was informed by the "near miss" of a worrying H5N1 Influenza outbreak. Obama dealt with Ebola and Zika.
The Trump administration’s response to SARS-CoV-2 was so catastrophically incompetent that it nearly seems intentional.
James Fallows has a very detailed piece that covers this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/how-whi...
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You cannot say this about the United States. Both of the prior administrations developed detailed pandemic response plans.
Bush’s plan was informed by the "near miss" of a worrying H5N1 Influenza outbreak. Obama dealt with Ebola and Zika.
The Trump administration’s response to SARS-CoV-2 was so catastrophically incompetent that it nearly seems intentional.
James Fallows has a very detailed piece that covers this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/how-whi...
reply