It's true that there are only two unexpected things in the world - the Spanish Inquisition and a virus caused global pandemic. Wait.... That's not true, only the Spanish Inquisition is unexpected.
Here are the details of a US government program that was put in place for the specific purpose of providing early warning of a potential global pandemic. It was disbanded by Donald Trump in September 2019.
Trump has described COVID-19 as a problem that “came out of nowhere.” “Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have happened,” he said on March 26, as he steered his country to the worst nightmare of the pandemic so far.
That’s a lie. In this audio edition of The Long Version, I talked with Dr. Jonna Mazet, the former global director of the U.S. government project to identify and prevent viruses from jumping into human populations. Trump shuttered that project in September 2019, three months before the virus was first detected in Wuhan, China—by scientists Mazet had been working with until the funding ran out.
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