Trump cuts to national security staff may hurt coronavirus response, say former officials
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Dr. Luciana Borio, the NSC's director for medical and biodefense preparedness, left in May 2018 and was also not replaced.In an October op-ed in The Washington Post, national security adviser Robert O'Brien described the Obama National Security Council as having "ballooned to well over 200 staffers," and he said he intended "to reduce the NSC staff."Said a former senior U.S. official, "For the first time since 9/11, you don't have someone directly and immediately reporting to the president responsible 24/7 for the major transnational threats we face — terror, cyber, pandemics."Major challenges loom, public health experts say.One immediate problem, Dr. Borio told NBC News, is that there is not yet a foolproof test to determine who has the virus."Having a good diagnostic test is necessary to protect health care workers so they can perform their work and it is also essential to understand the epidemic trajectory," she said.
As said here by Laura Strickler, Ken Dilanian