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In the United States, one of the most controversial issues surrounding the COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic of early 2020 was a debate over whether the Trump administration failed at adequately preparing the country for such an outbreak, and in responding to it in a timely and effective manner once it hit the U.S.: In response to such criticisms, U.S. President Donald Trump sought to affix blame on other people and entities, including his predecessor in the White House, Barack Obama: Trump's critics countered his excuses by, among other means, producing a video clip said to date from 2014 (a full five years before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic) and seemingly showing Obama strongly urging that the U.S. invest in creating an infrastructure for dealing with an airborne disease that is deadly that would allow us to see it quickly, isolate it quickly, respond to it quickly: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4867324/user-clip-obama-dec-2-2014This is indeed a correctly identified video clip which captured Obama's remarks when he paid a Dec. 2, 2014, visit to campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, to call for more funding for Ebola research: A full transcript of Obama's address at the NIH can be viewed here, while the portion excerpted in the video clip seen above read as follows:
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