The spies who predicted Covid-19

Shaken and stirred: US intelligence analysts were warning about precisely this Covid-19 pandemic scenario for at least 12 years.

INTELLIGENCE agencies are used to making headlines when they fail to do their job.

But after months of US President Donald Trump ignoring their warnings about Covid-19, and after years of his administration discounting their alerts about the danger of a pandemic more generally, it is time that intelligence professionals receive the credit they deserve.