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U.S. at Heightened Risk for a Germ Attack But Also More Ready

By Betsy McCaughey
Wednesday, May 27 2020

America hasn't seen the last of killer coronaviruses. China's "bat woman," a Wuhan Institute of Virology investigator who handles bat viruses, is warning that the current pandemic is "just the tip of the iceberg." Friendly advice from a researcher? Perhaps, but America's enemies are watching. They've seen the devastating impact of the coronavirus here, and "just how disruptive" a bioterrorism attack could be, warns Thomas G. Mahnken, a defense expert at Johns Hopkins. Who needs intercontinental missiles when a highly contagious, untreatable virus can paralyze the…

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