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Opinion No, the White House didn’t ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office. I was there.

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March 16, 2020 at 1:37 p.m. EDT
The White House. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

Tim Morrison is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and former senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense on the National Security Council.

President Trump gets his share of criticism — some warranted, much not. But recently the president’s critics have chosen curious ground to question his response to the coronavirus outbreak since it began spreading from Wuhan, China, in December.