{"id":107149,"date":"2020-05-16T16:42:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T23:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/george-w-bush-urged-us-to-prepare-for-future-pandemics-in-2005-nowthis"},"modified":"2020-05-16T16:42:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T23:42:23","slug":"george-w-bush-urged-us-to-prepare-for-future-pandemics-in-2005-nowthis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/george-w-bush-urged-us-to-prepare-for-future-pandemics-in-2005-nowthis","title":{"rendered":"George W. Bush Urged Us to Prepare for Future Pandemics in 2005 | NowThis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uSDC5L7qYUc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2018If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare\u2019 \u2014 George W. Bush warned about getting ahead of something like COVID-19 way back in 2005.<br \/> \u00bb Subscribe to NowThis: <a href=\"http:\/\/go.nowth.is\/News_Subscribe\">http:\/\/go.nowth.is\/News_Subscribe<\/a><br \/> \u00bb Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nowth.is\/KnowThis\">https:\/\/go.nowth.is\/KnowThis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In US news and current events today, listen to Pres. Bush urgently stress the importance of being prepared for a pandemic back in 2005. In this clip, Pres. George W. Bush addressed the Nat\u2019l Institutes of Health about having a game plan to fight future pandemics. Pres. Bush was reportedly alarmed after reading a history book about the 1918 flu pandemic where millions had died. Out of that interest came a grand outline for future administrations to follow in response to a global pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Listening in the audience that day was Dr. Anthony Fauci, dir. of the Nat\u2019l Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and current leader in the fight against COVID-19 today.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest coronavirus news and COVID-19 updates, subscribe to NowThis News.<\/p>\n<p>#GeorgeWBush #Pandemic #Fauci News #NowThis #NowThisNews<\/p>\n<p>Connect with NowThis<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/george-w-bush-urged-us-to-prepare-for-future-pandemics-in-2005-nowthis\">Continue reading \u201cGeorge W. Bush Urged Us to Prepare for Future Pandemics in 2005 | NowThis\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare\u2019 \u2014 George W. Bush warned about getting ahead of something like COVID-19 way back in 2005. \u00bb Subscribe to NowThis: http:\/\/go.nowth.is\/News_Subscribe \u00bb Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories of the day delivered straight to your [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}