Hospital staff members tend to a patient with the coronavirus at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston on July 5, 2020.
“If I can get past what I consider to be the biggest hurdle, which is not to have this viewed through a partisan political lens, then I think there should be strong support for it moving forward,” Menendez said Tuesday. “We’ve just had the worst calamity in most living Americans’ lives — real deaths, real suffering, a lot of future issues, economic issues,” Schmidt said in his first interview about his involvement. “I would like to see a detailed analysis of what happened and I’d like to see recommendations to prevent it from happening in the future. I think Americans are owed that.”
The group operates out of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center for Public Affairs, where Zelikow, a former diplomat, national security expert and now a history professor, is based. It works in cooperation with Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Security and Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Could intelligence officials have worked more closely with epidemiologists to track the virus as it took hold, and do the same with future emerging infections? Could the mass lockdowns last spring have been avoided, or at least limited to inflict less damage on the economy? How do state and local governments coordinate with Washington in a crisis that affects the whole country?
Let’s investigate the insurrection first, please.