New watchdog report reveals how terrible Trump's COVID response truly was
We’re almost a year into the coronavirus pandemic at this point, and President Trump has been out of office for more than a week now, but we’re still learning new details about the decisions and mistakes that were made in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. An outbreak that, according to the latest coronavirus update for the US through Friday, has resulted in more than 25.8 million coronavirus cases, along with more than 434,000 deaths, per the most recent stats from Johns Hopkins University.
Trump arguably lost his bid for re-election in November thanks to his handling of the COVID pandemic, which has hit the US harder than anywhere else on the planet — thanks to an abundance of self-inflicted errors and mistakes in judgment that were made at all levels of the Trump administration. That’s the conclusion you can’t help but come to after reading a new government watchdog’s report about the response of Trump officials to the crisis, as well as after reading and listening to new interviews with top science experts who worked inside the Trump administration.
Current White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, for example, quickly became a go-to health expert who the nation wanted to hear from as much as possible last year. He was seen as a straight-talker, albeit one who had to walk a fine line between sharing what people needed to hear and not getting too far out in front of the president — with Dr. Fauci only delicately pushing back in press briefings when the president said something outlandish.
It resulted in mixed, muddled messaging. The Trump administration’s bungled, confusing, and often error-filled communications “very likely did” cost lives, Dr. Fauci said during a CNN interview, adding:
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