"'He has created a leadership climate that stifles the kind of transparency, communication and truth telling that’s required in a crisis like this,' Michèle Flournoy, the former undersecretary of defense for policy, said of President Trump. 'What we have learned about pandemic response is that it’s impossible to over-communicate, even with imperfect information. It’s important to be as truthful as possible and communicate as clearly, consistently and as frequently as possible...'” Read the full article here: Full Article

"I think it’s very clear that it came from one source or another in Wuhan. I think it’s very clear that the Chinese government sought to suppress that information early on, even punishing people like doctors who were trying to make it known. And that mishandling of the early crisis significantly increased the global implications and the price that every other country of the world is going to pay in lives and in livelihood and economic terms..." Listen to the full [...]

"We both spent hundreds of hours in the Situation Room trying to prevent crises or dealing with them when prevention failed. Often, the issues we dealt with involved whole-of-government approaches here in the United States or working with our allies abroad. This experience got us interested in the key differences between countries that have managed the coronavirus outbreak well and those that have not. "Fundamentally, we define success in managing the outbreak as limiting the number of cases and deaths per [...]