The US had a chance to learn from outbreaks like SARS, H1N1 and Ebola. So why is the government response to coronavirus so messy?
Coronavirus puts the strategy to the testTrump had designated a cabinet-level steering committee to oversee its implementation. But that committee has never met to confront COVID-19 issues.
Jeremy Konyndyk, who served in the Obama administration as director of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, said that seemed “pretty striking.” Although Trump’s biodefense strategy said Health and Human Services would lead the effort, “in an actual crisis the leadership is back at the White House, where it should have been in the first place.
“It didn’t really work,” she said, referring to the strategy. “I don’t know if ‘dismayed’ is the right word. But I look at what’s going on right now and I just think, geez, there’s so much that could have been done in advance.By mid-March, Americans were, wiping out supplies of toilet paper and pasta. Major cities shut down gathering places, and some ordered residents to shelter in place.
Amid this turmoil, the GAO completed a review of the National Biodefense Strategy that it had begun in 2018, well before COVID-19 emanated from a wet market in Wuhan, China.
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