The COVID-19 pandemic should be viewed as a model of how national decision-makers, particularly in the U.S., responded to a monumental-scale crisis. Within this view, there are transcendent lessons to be learned and discoveries to be found by analyzing U.S. leadership's response. National decision-makers should accept the likely probability of another, similar national crisis.  

The pandemic dramatically disrupted the food supply. In the short to medium term, many of the same decision-makers that were in place during the start of the pandemic could be in the same positions when the next crisis unfolds. How they reacted to COVID-19 may serve as a portent of how they will react again, particularly if lessons were not learned and adjustments not made.