Are We Ready For The Next One? The Striking Pandemic Warnings That Were Ignored

Published: March 19, 2021, 9 p.m.

b'Dante Disparte, founder and chairman of Risk Cooperative and member of FEMA\'s National Advisory Council, explains how lessons from last year can help us in the next pandemic \\u2014 and why warnings from former Presidents Bush and Obama were not enough to prepare the U.S. for the coronavirus.

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