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Both publicly and privately, Sen Angus King spent weeks planning national coronavirus testing. Sen. Alexander held a hearing in which President Donald Trump's testing judge, Brett Girou, acknowledged that his efforts were "working in progress."
Trump has expelled all three - he is a Democratically from Maine, a Republican from Tennessee, he has appointed an admiral. He called the testing "overrated", while unreasonably saying that further testing only increased the number of coronavirus cases.
Both publicly and privately, Sen Angus King spent weeks planning national coronavirus testing. Sen. Alexander held a hearing in which President Donald Trump's testing judge, Brett Girou, acknowledged that his efforts were "working in progress."
Trump has expelled all three - he is a Democratically from Maine, a Republican from Tennessee, he has appointed an admiral. He called the testing "overrated", while unreasonably saying that further testing only increased the number of coronavirus cases.
"A wonderful failure of efficient leadership," King said in an interview with 24 November. And this is the reality of the embarrassment of America's fight against the global epidemic.
After briefly embracing the "role of a wartime president," Trump dropped the battlefield in favor of cheerleading for economic revival. In the absence of reliable White House leadership, a mix of federal, state, and private sector efforts has gradually increased the level of testing without a national plan.
The decline in the positive test ratio points to low tide for epidemics nationally. Yet public health officials have warned that retreating to stop the commander-in-chief virus now threatens to slow down or reverse what has been a painful stay and economic shutdown. The British medical journal The Lancet has denounced the Trump administration as "vaccine-obsessed with magic bullets", and that the level of combat testing required is "nowhere".
Meanwhile, Trump is leaning towards the promise of a widely available vaccine by the end of the year - a possibility that public health experts see as impossible. He avoided the broad security guidelines he presented just a month ago to restart the economy and praised armed protesters for urging governors to lift sanctions. And he wisely blocked detailed guidelines for businesses and schools to reopen, limiting disease control and prevention centers to offering a six-page collection of "decision trees."
The president ended the visibility of top public health officials by concluding a daily coronavirus taskforce briefing. He has fought in a public meeting with renowned infectious disease authority Anthony Fawcett, whose warnings clash with Trump's initiative for accelerated economic activity.
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