The UK was prepared for the wrong pandemic, former Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday when questioned about the national security strategy of his government. As biosecurity came into the spotlight due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, Parliament’s National Security Strategy Committee on Jan. 4 launched an inquiry into how well the UK’s national security machinery operates in preparation for future emergencies. Speaking as a witness at the inquiry’s first meeting on Monday, Cameron told his virtual audience that his government was aware of the risk of a pandemic after Ebola. “We had a reminder of what a pandemic is when Ebola struck,” he said. “[And] the sort of global architecture of the World Health Organization was quite slow to respond.” Although his government did categorize the risk of a pandemic as a tier 1 priority (pdf), Cameron said it was anticipating a wrong pandemic. “I think the mistake …
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