What was the official US Covid pandemic response plan?
- We have no idea
- The closest document we have to a national Covid response plan is the Pandemic Crisis Action Plan
- Adapted (PanCAP-A) dated March 13, 2020
- In this plan, the National Security Council is designated as solely responsible for COVID response policy
- It states in a footnote that the "Strategic Objectives" of the response plan "were directed by the NSC Resilience DRG PCC on February 24, 2020."
- Where is there a record of what was the goal? How was success measured? Where is the demonstration of the relationship between the means and ends
Pandemic planning document hidden
- The lead agency for the pandemic response, which was supposed to be HHS, was replaced by FEMA five days after PanCAP-A.
- FEMA has no pandemic preparedness document to refer to as HHS has not been named as the new lead agency
Conclusion and Implications
- In order to understand why and how the US Covid-19 response was implemented, we need to know what the response plan actually was
- The fact that we know nearly nothing about what the National Security Council was planning suggests that they did not want to reveal what their actual objectives and strategy were
- Maybe if citizens, journalists, and activists demand answers from our politicians, we can obtain the documents laying out the objectives & strategy
https://brownstone.org/articles/was-there-a-covid-response-plan-if-so-where-is-it/
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