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America Is Not Set Up For This
Experts have been predicting a global flu pandemic for years
So why was the U.S. so unprepared for coronavirus?
- Michael Hobbes
- HuffPost
By the last week of January, Rob DeLeo knew it was going to get bad.
“I was having breakfast with my partner and I said, ‘We should get some extra food because we’re going to be inside for awhile,’” said DeLeo, a Bentley University professor who has been studying America’s political response to…
Over the next two weeks, as he began preparing for a lengthy period of self-isolation, he was struck how calm political leaders seemed to be.
The coronavirus was never mentioned at the…