The Global Health Security and Biodefense Directorate inside the NSC was disbanded 18 months before Covid emerged. It was established by the Obama administration as a response to the Ebola outbreak. What’s your point exactly?

I know people point to that in some sort of accusatory suggestion regarding Covid, but to my knowledge no one has provided any definitive proof that the pandemic would have been better or worse for the US if that council was around in 2020. There doesn’t seem to be any evidence that the US response would have been different if it existed or the that the pandemic would have been prevented. It was re-established under Biden, but Biden’s coronavirus approach didn’t seem to be measurably better than Trump’s, in fact it was worse. They pretty much continued and doubled down on the same wrongheaded approach that Trump was doing.