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    Commentary: COVID-19 may be teaching the world a dangerous lesson: Diseases can be ideal weapons

    by Christine Parthemore and Andy Weber, Los Angeles Times Nov 18, 2020 3 minutes

    The devastation COVID-19 has wrought on the U.S. population is staggering. Yet the risks it poses to our national security are also chilling: Diseases are, in many terrible ways, ideal weapons.

    Many high-level national security leaders have contracted the virus, including the president. In October most of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and two other high-level military leaders were in quarantine after coming in contact with the vice commandant of the Coast Guard, who tested positive for the disease. A number of White House aides have been infected.

    COVID-19 has

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