| May Tue, 2020
Watch: What Happens Next
John J. Farmer, Jr., director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics and the Miller Center for Community Protection & Resilience, participated in Rutgers University's first video in the "What Happens Next" series that explores how the United States might respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
| April Wed, 2020
A Bipartisan Commission Came Together After 9/11. Don’t Count on It for COVID-19.
John Farmer Jr., who served as senior counsel for the 9/11 Commission, argued that the ongoing nature of the outbreak—which is expected to disrupt normal life until after a vaccine is developed—is another reason to accelerate at least some big-picture review.
| April Fri, 2020
The US needs a 9/11 Commission for the coronavirus
“Clearly, the system that’s in place doesn’t work, and we’re going to need to figure out a way to change it,” John Farmer Jr., a senior counsel and team leader for the 9/11 Commission now at Rutgers University, told me. “There’s almost no excuse for the dilatory nature of this response.”
| March Sat, 2020
9/11 commission official calls on government to change response to coronavirus immediately
"We're here today to find out how many people will die based on the decisions you make." Over a decade ago, beginning with words like those, I led a "war game" exercise involving senior officials from several states and the federal government. We were trying to determine what would happen if a weaponized microbe, like anthrax or smallpox, were released into the general population.