It was Obama and other administrations, he said , who left the shelves of the nation's Strategic National Stockpile bare of the items needed to combat the coronavirus. But Trump hadn't replaced those items either, despite repeated warnings that the country was ill-prepared for a pandemic, stockpile experts said. "What we have gotten out of the Strategic National Stockpile has not been what we were promised or what we were owed." 'Under wraps'Greg Burel likened his job as director of the Strategic National Stockpile to managing a Home Depot for disasters. In the wake of 9/11, the stockpile was given its current name: Strategic National Stockpile.

Source: CNN May 06, 2020 22:52 UTC