The U.S. was given over a month to prepare for the coronavirus spreading locally here, and that time was squandered. In the last few days before the government stopped publishing the numbers, the CDC was only managing between 4 to 13 tests per a day.
Containment is impossible with the kind of approach the US is taking. What's even the plan? To hope that COVID-19 doesn't actually spread as easily as feared? And if it does, to hope that the % of infected who will need medical treatment is actually lower than currently thought?
On Friday, Trump claimed only 15 people in the US were infected, all expected to recover, and called criticisms of his handling of the epidemic the "new hoax."
By then, Americans were already dying from coronavirus without ever knowing that was the cause.
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By then, Americans were already dying from coronavirus without ever knowing that was the cause.
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It's as if all the US agencies responsible for potential pandemics decided to base their response to coronavirus on the assumption it would magically disappear by April, and that not enough Americans would die by then to justify anything more than a bare bones effort to slow it.
TRUMP DIDN'T EVEN DO THAT, it's just a lie he made up. Along with the his lie about being called racist for doing this, since he never did it in the first place.
