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Trumps 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 administrations insistence that containment wasand should remainthe 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 weeksif not monthsbehind schedule.
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