When we started hearing that the Trump administration sowed the seeds for the lackluster response to this outbreak by firing the nationâs whole pandemic preparedness team a few years ago, it was genuinely disturbing how unsurprising it was. But former administration officials are now pushing back against the report that Trump recklessly fired the response team […]
President Trump made his first public comments about the coronavirus on Jan. 22, in a television interview from Davos with CNBCâs Joe Kernen. The first American case had been announced the day before, and Kernen asked Trump, âAre there worries about a pandemic at this point?â The president responded: âNo. Not at all. And we […]
When Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), declared the Wuhan coronavirus a public health emergency of international concern on Thursday, he praised China for taking âunprecedentedâ steps to control the deadly virus. âI have never seen for myself this kind of mobilization,â he noted. âChina is actually setting a new standard […]
The possibility of a pandemic is a challenge Donald Trump is unqualified to handle as president. I remember how Trump sought to stoke fear and stigma during the 2014 Ebola epidemic. He called President Barack Obama a âdopeâ and âincompetentâ and railed against the evidence-based response our administration put in place â which quelled the crisis and saved […]
