CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[The Obama] administration spent a lot of time working with the incoming Trump administration, laying out exactly what could happen with a future pandemic, and that they were likely, not unlikely to occur…
We set up an office within the White House directly to stay focused on this, in the president — in the White House and — to deal with pandemics.
And the first thing this president did, maybe not the first but very first, he eliminated the office, took it out of the White House…
I just don’t think he has taken this [coronavirus outbreak] seriously from the outset.”
-Joe Biden as quoted by CNN, “CNN Joe Biden Town Hall. Aired 8-9p ET,” cnn.com, Mar. 27, 2020