Originally Posted by GUWonder

In 2016 the National Security Council put together the Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents. It was a management playbook on how to respond quickly to even pandemics of various sorts ... even those caused by biowarfare agent use.

The so-called pandemic playbook was the product of 2 years of work and was completed in 2016. It wasn’t used and acted upon in January and February of 2020 or even two weeks ago. Talk about missing the boat.
Clearly someone forgot about its existence and didn’t follow the playbook as soon as possible. This is what happens when you gut players with institutional knowledge and then forget or refuse to even chase them for advice.