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RAND: Is COVID-19 a National Security Emergency?
August 10, 2020
SANTA MONICA, California, Aug. 10 -- RAND issued the following commentary by Colin P. Clarke, adjunct political scientist affiliate faculty at Pardee RAND Graduate School:

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COVID-19 is the greatest threat to the United States to materialize in over a century. To put it into perspective, World War II, which many consider to have been an existential threat, claimed an average of 9,000 American lives per month. The novel coronavirus has, so far, claimed 30,000 America . . .

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