Barack Obama: “I called my team together in my second term, and I said, we…”

“Now, I will give you the opposite example. When I was president, we had to deal with Ebola and H1N virus. And so I started really studying issues of pandemic. And I called my team together in my second term, and I said, we need to put together a playbook for how to deal with pandemic. the same way we have a playbook for how to deal with natural disasters, hurricanes, floods, et cetera. What are we going to do? And so we put together the playbook.” (30:30–30:37)

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