Sorry Nicky I have to disagree. Trump was left a road map, a paint by numbers manual on a pandemic response plan. He ignored it. His response was pitiful. People died as a result.
Obama's White House National Security Council left the Trump administration a detailed document on how to respond to a pandemic. The document, whose existence was publicly revealed by Politico in March, is called the Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents.
"We literally left them a 69-page Pandemic Playbook.... that they ignored," Ronald Klain, a campaign adviser to Democratic candidate Joe Biden and the former Obama administration Ebola response coordinator, wrote on Twitter.
The playbook -- 40 pages plus appendices -- contains step-by-step advice on questions to ask, decisions to make, and which federal agencies are responsible for what. It includes sample documents that officials could use for inter-agency meetings.
And it explicitly lists novel coronaviruses as one of the kinds of pathogens that could require a major response.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...council-149285
https://twitter.com/RonaldKlain/stat...15062271455233