The US will need to create a commission to investigate why it wasn't adequately prepared for coronavirus, if only to make sure the nation is ready for the next pandemic | peterbergencnn for CNNopinion
Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America, a professor of practice at Arizona State University. His new book is "Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles at CNN.
We won't know for many weeks, and maybe many months, the full impact Covid-19 will have on the health of Americans -- how many will be hospitalized and how many will die. We do know that it already has dealt a devastating blow to the US economy. Before too long, many Americans are going to demand to know why the United States failed to adequately prepare for one of the most significant crises since World War II; a crisis that was both foreseeable and foreseen.
Peter BergenThe United States has often turned to investigative commissions to examine why a crisis happened and how the government might better respond in the future. Following the attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration quickly investigated what had happened.
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