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Some experts believe the government should have done more to develop such kits, Olga Khazan reports in her latest.

“If somebody was bombing us, killing even a fraction of the number of people who have died at the hands of this virus, we would not be sitting idly by and saying, I wonder who’s going to make the next crop of missiles for us to use to defend ourselves?” one expert told Olga.

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