The Coronavirus Pandemic and Effectiveness of the U.S. Biological Threats Early Warning System
The Coronavirus Pandemic and Effectiveness of the U.S. Biological Threats Early Warning System

Author(s): Marcin Andrzej Piotrowski
Subject(s): Governance, Welfare systems, Politics and society, Management and complex organizations, Health and medicine and law
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; United States; Trump administration; political crisis; biological threats; US biological threats early warning system; US national biodefense strategy;
Summary/Abstract: The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic to the U.S. was preceded by long-term predictions and numerous direct warnings of the dangerously evolving situation in China. Documents leaked to date suggest that all these signals were ignored by President Donald Trump and his advisors. This is why the Trump administration’s reaction at the beginning was to politicise the crisis, which will likely result in special investigation by Congress. Despite this issue, the early warning of biological threats and countering them may become a prospective area of cooperation within NATO and between the U.S. and European Union.

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