It was published by the peak body within the US intelligence community – the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. This lack of consensus among intelligence agencies and low levels of confidence on their assessments are due to many factors. Better health intelligence collection and analysisAs pandemics become more frequent, our intelligence agencies need better risk, threat and hazard assessment methodologies to drive more robust, evidence-based collection and analysis of intelligence. The US intelligence community has a track record here, but it and other Five Eyes countries will require even more strategic, coordinated outreach from the relatively closed intelligence world to the scientific community. Such reviews could include what was done well and lessons to be learned that can be fed into national health security strategies.

Source: Washington Post March 09, 2023 02:07 UTC