Report from Democrats led by Sen Gary Peters details Covid failings at start of pandemic

[Takket]

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/democratic-report-details-trump-administrations-covid-failings-suffering/story?id=94705408

More people died and more Americans lost trust in their institutions as a result of the federal government's decisions made in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a newly released investigative report from the Democratic staff of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs.

The 242-page report authored by the committee's majority, chaired by Democrat Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan, expands on the perfect storm of colliding factors, such as longstanding systematic vulnerabilities in various parts of the government, that led to early bungling of the pandemic response. The report also builds on criticism of how then-President Donald Trump's White House responded to the virus in 2020.

The committee's majority staff said they endeavored to unpack why, from early on, the federal government appeared unprepared to address the pandemic -- and why the Trump administration failed to adequately respond, while exerting partisan influence to exploit public health messaging as a political football..


Delayed action and repeatedly muddled communication eroded public trust and contributed to a greater loss of American lives, the report found, noting that the U.S. risks repeating the same mistakes in future disasters.

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nothing in here, i assume, would be much of a surprise to those of us on DU. We wrote a hundred threads about this insanity while the media both-sides the whole thing. The pandemic hit the USA so hard for one reason only: drumpf's ego. He didn't know how to handle it, and didn't want to handle it because he thought it would make him "look bad", and like a child he thought it would just go away if he ignored it. We ALL suffered because of HIM