[Fury]

The administrative team specifically responsible for pandemic planning and preparation were fired and /or dismissed in 2018. This is a true statement.

That's not what you originally wrote.

You wrote: "It may not have helped that the administration officials in charge of monitoring global pandemics were fired in 2018 and never replaced.

The only reasonable inference from what you wrote is there are no administration officials in charge of monitoring pandemics.

And that's fake news.

[John W]

And it was two people on the NSA.

[Taipei]

I wasn’t the OP of the statement, but you’re really trying to split some hairs here. Pandemic planning would still have been part of the mandate of the NSC, however there have been no officials specifically responsible for this mandate since the 2018 dismissal of Rear Adm. Timothy Zeiner.