If we learned anything this year, it’s that our government was woefully ill-equipped to manage a global pandemic. 

@SenWarren and I have a plan to prevent this level of catastrophic mismanagement from ever happening again. 

What exactly are we proposing? 1/ https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1319359683250061313

Invest in our supply chains *before* we need them. 

Affordable housing, universal health care, the national stockpile: all of these are critical to protecting America’s health prior to any kind of national health emergency. 2/

Lead international efforts to identify & stop the spread of new diseases before they become full-on pandemics. 

International cooperation doesn’t make us a weak nation. It makes us a strong global partner in human health 3/

Rebuild our public health workforce. 

Trump’s attacks on public health officials have depleted and demoralized the halls of the NIH and CDC. Let’s recruit folks to serve in their hometowns, forgive their student loans, and get Americans back to work. 4/

Address systemic racism in our health care system. 

Black & Latino people are 3x more likely to contract COVID-19 than white Americans, & nearly 5x more likely to be hospitalized. Let’s address the social determinants of health to change those outcomes. 5/

The health of the planet matters!

Deforestation, environmental racism, and intensive farming/mining/development actually makes future pandemic more likely. We can’t build a healthy future while destroying our planet. 6/6