In early 2020, then-Senate Majority Chief Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) claimed that the Obama administration didn’t go away any pandemic playbook. Quickly after that, Ronald Klain, the White Home Ebola response coordinator from October 2014 to February 2015, posted the playbook on social media, whereas Nicole Lurie, an Obama administration official, confirmed its existence.
“To say there was no playbook was ridiculous,” Lurie advised PBS in 2020.
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