Meanwhile, Trump has crippled the ability of the United States to respond to the coronavirus in order to save money.
"Other White House efforts included reducing $15 billion in national health spending and cutting the global disease-fighting operational budgets of the CDC, NSC, DHS, and HHS. And the government’s $30 million Complex Crises Fund was eliminated.
In May 2018, Trump ordered the NSC’s entire global health security unit shut down, calling for reassignment of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer and dissolution of his team inside the agency. The month before, then-White House National Security Advisor John Bolton pressured Ziemer’s DHS counterpart, Tom Bossert, to resign along with his team. Neither the NSC nor DHS epidemic teams have been replaced. The global health section of the CDC was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid off and the number of countries it was working in was reduced from 49 to merely 10. Meanwhile, throughout 2018, the U.S. Agency for International Development and its director, Mark Green, came repeatedly under fire from both the White House and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. And though Congress has so far managed to block Trump administration plans to cut the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps by 40 percent, the disease-fighting cadres have steadily eroded as retiring officers go unreplaced."
[Trump Has Sabotaged America’s Coronavirus Response]
But everything's under control! Right?
First, your source is a month old and it was a lie when posted.
Which countries are most and least prepared to deal with an epidemic or pandemic like the Coronavirus?
Sophie IrelandStats GateJanuary 30, 2020
Unsurprisingly, the United States is the most prepared country to deal with epidemic or pandemic like the mysterious Coronavirus, that’s according to the Global Health Security Index. The United Kingdom came second with 77.9, followed by the Netherlands with 75.6.
Which countries are most and least prepared to deal with an epidemic or pandemic like the Coronavirus? > CEOWORLD magazine
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Jan 27, 2020, 06:14am
The Countries Best And Worst Prepared For An Epidemic [Infographic]
Niall McCarthyContributor
Business
Data journalist covering technological, societal and media topics
The Countries Best And Worst Prepared For An Epidemic [Infographic]
I would say you should be ashamed for attempting to scare people when we, the United States, is the best-prepared country in the world to face a pandemic.
But then, rabid anti-Trumpers have no shame!