"In 2018, he dismantled an office that had been assembled specifically to prepare for nascent pandemics. "

https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/08/how-pandemic-defeated-america/167567/

Defenseone.com is anti-Trump all the way through. Anons will recall that Congress had defunded that office. There was no money to pay anyone to sit and answer the phones.