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Fri Mar 6, 2020, 01:00 AM Mar 2020

Trump's Coronavirus Plan Was Never Going to Work [View all]

Trump’s Coronavirus Plan Was Never Going to Work

March 5, 2020 at 10:09 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 295 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/05/trumps-coronavirus-plan-was-never-going-to-work/

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Time: “Since January, epidemiologists, former U.S. public health officials and experts have been warning, publicly and privately, that the administration’s insistence that containment was—and should remain—the primary way to confront an emerging infectious disease was a grave mistake.”

“The administration was using all its resources to blockade the doors, they warned, but the enemy was likely already in the house.”

“When it finally became indisputable that an outbreak was underway in Washington state, the administration were slow to catch up. There were not enough COVID-19 testing kits, hotlines were overwhelmed, and hospitals and public health departments were hobbled by a lack of reliable statistics on the spread of the disease. Experts say the U.S. response is now likely weeks—if not months—behind schedule.”

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