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Joe Lieberman: the bottom-line conclusion of this report is that we are better defended than we were in 2001 after the anthrax attacks…

On the recordOctober 27, 2015
the bottom-line conclusion of this report is that we are better defended than we were in 2001 after the anthrax attacks, but really the State of our biodefense is inadequate, and we are unprepared for the very real biological threats we face, both from terrorists and from naturally emerging contagious diseases.
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

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Lieberman discusses the inadequacies in U.S. biodefense despite improvements since 2001.

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