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Originally Posted by Nell57
Google Politifact.....
Feb 28, 2020 · Says of President Donald Trump's actions on the coronavirus:
No. 1, he fired the pandemic team two years ago.
No. 2, he's been defunding the Centers for Disease Control.”.
Add to that the fact that up until now we were dependent on China to supply the testing reagent. We are scrambling to get it manufactured here.
All 50 states have the same shortage.
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Did the Trump administration "fire" the pandemic team? How about asking the former senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense on the National Security Council, Tim Morrison. He wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post that totally debunks this.
"It has been alleged by multiple officials of the Obama administration, including in The Washington Post, that the president and his then-national security adviser, John Bolton, “dissolved the office” at the White House in charge of pandemic preparedness. Because I (Tim Morrison) led the very directorate assigned that mission,
the counterproliferation and biodefense office, for a year and then handed it off to another official who still holds the post, I know the charge is specious."
No, the White House Didn’t ‘Dissolve’ Its Pandemic Response Office | RealClearPolitics