The COVID hearing made clear: We still have a lot to learn about pandemic preparedness 

One would never know it from watching last week’s hearings of the House Select Subcommittee House on the Coronavirus Pandemic, but there are grave, if not existential, questions about America’s pandemic response that must be addressed to secure our future.  

For starters: 

1) How could a nation whose capacity to manage a pandemic was ranked No.1 in the world on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic have so mismanaged the disease that it later ranked worst in both infection rates and fatalities?