The draft report, dated October 19, 2019, and marked “not to be disclosed,” didn’t become public until the New York Times obtained a copy under the Freedom of Information Act and published a front-page article on March 19, 2020, eight days after the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic.237 Only under pressure from another FOIA request did Kadlec’s HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response release the January 2020 After-Action Crimson Contagion Report the following September. It is available online here: governmentattic.org/38docs/HHSaarCrimsonContAAR_2020.pdf. The Times
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Crimson Contagion exercise paralleled others but was more secret. NYT released the report in March 2020 after a FOIA request

