Bioweapons and COVID-19

The World

There’s no evidence that the coronavirus was created in a lab. But it has exposed vulnerabilities to bioweapons all around the world. Host Marco Werman speaks with Andrew Weber, the former assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs under US President Barack Obama, about what we can learn from COVID-19. 

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