>The rest of the world has their own responsibility to some extent but the US usually takes point on these kind of things.
The US has 330M people. The rest of the world has over 7B. The rest of the world needs to get over this idea that the US is the leader on everything; the election of Trump should have been the canary in the coalmine that the US just can't be trusted for global leadership any more, and continuing to do so is dangerous and foolhardy. As you said, it's been "a few years" since the pandemic response team was fired; so why would any country have trusted the US since then for pandemic response ability or competence?
The US has 330M people. The rest of the world has over 7B. The rest of the world needs to get over this idea that the US is the leader on everything; the election of Trump should have been the canary in the coalmine that the US just can't be trusted for global leadership any more, and continuing to do so is dangerous and foolhardy. As you said, it's been "a few years" since the pandemic response team was fired; so why would any country have trusted the US since then for pandemic response ability or competence?