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Bgugi@lemmy.world 2 months agoThe “disbanding” of the pandemic response team is largely misrepresented. I don’t disagree with the rest, or see how it’s at all relevant to the current conversation at all.
absentbird@lemm.ee 2 months ago
How is it misrepresented?
The Global Health Security and Biodefense unit — responsible for pandemic preparedness — was established in 2015 by Barack Obama.
In May 2018, the team was disbanded and its head Timothy Ziemer, top White House official for leading U.S. response against a pandemic, left the Trump administration.
Republicans have claimed it was ‘streamlining’ as opposed to elimination, since some members of the team were reassigned to other roles related to pandemic response, but the team was disbanded under the trump administration, that’s just a fact.