"The Trump administration was warned coming in that a global pandemic was "inevitable," including receiving a 69-page "war plan" from the Obama administration, Susan Rice, who served as former President Barack Obama's national security adviser, said Thursday.
"We have known because of our expertise in global health and our intelligence committee, and the likelihood that we were overdue for a global pandemic, that it wasn't just something that we could predict," Rice said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
Rice said she spent 12 hours, over four sessions, briefing Gen. Michael Flynn, her successor, about the various threats that could be faced, and "prominent among them was the risk of a global pandemic."
"We understood this risk to be real as you heard President Obama say in 2014," said Rice. "We had been through the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, we had been through Ebola and Zika. The Bush administration before us dealt with H5N1, a devastating flu that thankfully didn't spread as far as fast as it could have."
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