In May 2018 , before the coronavirus pandemic in the US , John Bolton eliminated the position of an Obama-era pandemic monitoring official within the National Security Council .
In May 2018 , John Bolton eliminated the position of an Obama-era pandemic monitoring official within the National Security Council ( NSC ) . `` The Trump administration is ill-prepared for a global pandemic '' , The Washington Post , April 8 , 2017In January 2019 , a U.S. Senate Committee warned that the U.S. and the world was vulnerable to a flu pandemic or large-scale outbreak of a contagious disease , which could severely affect the world economy .
2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States