We need to be able to do this in a thoughtful way where we don't have everybody trying to score political points on this one way or the other. But again, my instinct right now is I'm very worried. Chinese didn't cooperate. A lot of people died and trillions of dollars worth of damage were done because they were slow, clearly, in notifying it. I think they probably manipulated the World Health Organization. That's a huge loss because that will undermine the credibility of an institution that we really need. (38:08–38:17)
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