March 06, 2020
From the article:
"Jeremy Konyndyk, a former director of the foreign disaster assistance program at USAID who helped manage the response to Ebola during Barack Obama’s presidency, said a competent administration would have had a contingency plan for a repeat of the Diamond Princess debacle. 'It’s one thing to be the first one to make a mistake,' he told me. 'It’s pretty different to be the second one to make the same mistake.' He added, 'To say we’ve got no way to bring these people off the cruise ship is extraordinary to me...'”