John Bolton eliminated the position of an Obama-era pandemic monitoring official within the NSC before the 2020 coronavirus pandemic .
John Bolton eliminated the position of an Obama-era pandemic monitoring official within the NSC . `` The Trump administration is ill-prepared for a global pandemic '' , The Washington Post , April 8 , 2017In February 2020 , the CDC was notifying the press that it was expecting the infections to spread , and urged local governments , businesses , and schools to develop plans for the outbreak .
2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States