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    ‘BATTLING A PANDEMIC IS A SPECIAL KIND OF WAR’

    Aug 20, 2021 5 minutes
    BY KENNETH BERNARD
    “As never before, we are acutely aware how important national biodefense leadership is to SAVE LIVES and protect the economy.”

    In 2020, during the greatest public health emergency in 100 years, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said about the COVID pandemic, “We are at war. It’s a different type of war, but a war, nonetheless.”

    Battling a pandemic is a special kind of war. Pandemics are not just a public health crisis. Like more traditional wars, they affect every aspect of life and society and demand decisive leadership at the top.

    The Trump White House struggled to understand this, and our country suffered extensively as a result. In 2018, President Trump abolished the relevant National Security Council Directorate for Biosecurity,

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