understand the severity of it. this is a very severe. what's happened is very severe. but i'd let you answer that. i assume that he was talking about the concept of a pandemic. >> thank you, mr. president. absolutely for 15 years now this country has had a massive effort at the federal, state and local level of preparedness for pandemic. now that largely has been, as i said in those remarks, about pandemic flu preparedness. we knew about sars. we knew about mers, which were earlier modifications or variants of the coronavirus. none of those achieved anything like what we're seeing today. but that's why for successive presidency, including the leadership of president trump, there has been a great focus on pandemic preparedness. in fact, it was just in november, i believe, that the president signed the pandemic flu preparedness executive order that we have -- and we have also updated the pandemic crisis action plan, which has been the playbook from which we've been working, the pandemic flu plan.