Coronavirus crisis exposes years of failure |
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Written by The Hill Press |
Friday, 20 March 2020 10:11 |
Two months of inaction pass, then mixed messages from Trump confuse the public response. WASHINGTON, DC - The coronavirus spreading across the United States has exposed a deep and pervasive failure to plan for what experts and former government officials have warned of for years, the prospect of a global pandemic that threatens to overwhelm health systems and kill millions. Instead, two months after the first American tested positive and as the number of confirmed cases inside the country soars past 10,000, a decentralized governmental response has been scattered and uneven, a mix of action and inaction, urgency and passivity. |