‘We didn’t follow through’: The official who tallied ‘lessons learned’ from Ebola weighs in on the coronavirus response
Christopher Kirchhoff knows how to assess the U.S. government’s response to a public health crisis.
Kirchhoff, an aide at the Pentagon who moved to the White House during the height of the West African Ebola outbreak, was tapped to write a 2016 report about the lessons the U.S. could learn from the epidemic — and the steps it could take to prepare for the next outbreak of an emerging infection.
