In October 2019, an extensive report two years in the making placed the US and the UK first and second respectively in a global ranking of countries pandemic preparedness.

Even more impressively, Britain led the world in a sub-section on a countrys ability to respond rapidly and halt the spread of of devastating diseases.

Nine months later, the US and the UK have been crippled both physically and economically by coronavirus . So what went wrong?

In short, everyone did what they were supposed to when Covid-19 hit except the politicians.