In Jan 2017, a week before Trump takes office, Obama staffers run a pandemic response exercise for incoming senior Trump cabinet officials that warns of critical shortages of PPE, ventilators, etc.pic.twitter.com/yzpsNyWZFl
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A partial list of warnings that Trump and senior admin officials received months or years before impeachment:https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1244992608423890955 …
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March 2017:
@SenWarren,@PattyMurray and 3 House Dems write HHS Secretary Tom Price to raise concerns about the nation’s ability to respond to infectious disease threats. No response received.pic.twitter.com/iufJ95DA0E
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April 2017: Alarm from health experts fuels a WaPo story titled, 'The Trump administration is ill-prepared for a global pandemic,' which notes that 'the Trump administration has filled few of the senior positions critical to responding to an outbreak.'https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-trump-administration-is-ill-prepared-for-a-global-pandemic/2017/04/08/59605bc6-1a49-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html …
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October 2017: Adm. Tim Ziemer, who will be dismissed in 2018 as Senior Director for Global Health Security at the NSC, writes a WH blog post warning that the world remains under-prepared for an infectious disease outbreak. https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/securing-global-health-u-s-leadership/ …pic.twitter.com/0hAJChWAbt
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Feb 2018: The U.S. intel community Worldwide Threat Assessment warns that a 'novel strain of a virulent microbe that is easily transmissible' carries 'the potential for a severe global health emergency... major economic and societal disruptions' https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Testimonies/2018-ATA---Unclassified-SSCI.pdf …
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Feb 2018: A coalition of global health orgs warns that severe U.S. cuts to CDC epidemic prevention efforts around the world (including in China) will leave the world unprepared for the next outbreakpic.twitter.com/7qGz7iD9En
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March 2018: Bill Gates says he has personally and repeatedly warned Pres. Trump, including the previous month, that the U.S. government is not properly prepared for a large and lethal modern-day pandemichttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/04/27/bill-gates-calls-on-u-s-to-lead-fight-against-a-pandemic-that-could-kill-millions/ …
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May 2018: Luciana Borio, director of medical and biodefense preparedness at the NSC (whose team is soon-after disbanded) warns that we are not prepared to respond to an emerging pandemicpic.twitter.com/BV0HcEgV4E
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May 2018:
@SenSherrodBrown, in a letter protesting the elimination of the NSC pandemic response team, requests the administration urgently re-prioritize global health securitypic.twitter.com/CWnr54egby
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Sept 2018: Ex-Obama homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco co-authors a Foreign Policy essay, 'The Next Pandemic Will Be Arriving Shortly,' warning of 'clear signs that the world is unprepared for the next outbreak'https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/28/the-next-pandemic-will-be-arriving-shortly-global-health-infectious-avian-flu-ebola-zoonotic-diseases-trump/ …
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Jan 2019: The DNI's Worldwide Threat Assessment includes an even more dramatic warning that the U.S. remains 'vulnerable to the next flu pandemic or largescale outbreak of a contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability'pic.twitter.com/iOptTxGb6s
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Jan-Aug 2019: HHS runs a multi-agency simulation of an influenza pandemic that 'drove home just how underfunded, underprepared and uncoordinated the federal government would be for a life-or-death battle with a virus for which no treatment existed'https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-outbreak.html …
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October 2019: A draft report of lessons from the HHS simulation 'accurately predicted the very types of problems' with the response seen now, the NYT reported, including ventilator/mask/supply shortages, confusion over federal & state roles, and federal interagency frictionpic.twitter.com/DmQiVa9SQ4
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