The President was briefed. The outbreak had begun. A deadly virus was spreading out of control and fast. The viral infection rate would progress to become a worldwide pandemic was now considered a certainty. In fact, it had reached the shores of the United States, with the first domestic hospitalization of the first U.S. victim. Now the question on the minds of the experts was: “What can or will the President of the United States do to fight back against this deadly infectious spread?” First, the President issued a public statement vowing that The United States would stand with, and work with,