Tag: Americans dying because of Trump mismanagement

With New Hot Spots Emerging, No Sign of a Respite

New York Times logoWhile cities like New York have seen a hopeful drop in cases, upticks in other major cities and smaller communities have offset those decreases.

In New York City, the daily onslaught of death from the coronavirus has dropped to half of what it was. In Chicago, a makeshift hospital in a lakefront convention center is closing, deemed no longer needed. And in New Orleans, new cases have dwindled to a handful each day.

Yet across America, those signs of progress obscure a darker reality.

The country is still in the firm grip of a pandemic with little hope of release. For every indication of improvement in controlling the virus, new outbreaks have emerged elsewhere, leaving the nation stuck in a steady, unrelenting march of deaths and infections. Continue reading.

The one way to tell Trump didn’t take coronavirus seriously

Focusing on threat earlier could have derailed impeachment

After weeks of minimizing the novel coronavirus, President Donald Trump now claims that he took it seriously from the beginning and knew about the pandemic before anyone else. There’s one key piece of evidence that shows that is not true.

If Trump had taken the coronavirus more seriously, more quickly, he could have avoided the Senate impeachment trial and maybe even impeachment altogether.

Republicans and the president blame Democrats for focusing government resources on impeachment while the outbreak was occurring in China, when it’s Trump who could have essentially stopped the process in its tracks. Continue reading.

Trump confronts most difficult week yet in coronavirus battle

The Hill logoPresident Trump and his administration are confronting the most difficult week yet of the novel coronavirus outbreak as cases are expected to approach peak levels in some of the hardest-hit areas of the country.

The administration is facing growing pressure to get medical supplies to states where hospitals fear shortages, and critics say a leadership vacuum has hurt the disbursement of critical resources.

The week ahead also will tell the tale of whether the administration’s guidelines for social distancing are working to flatten the curve of infections. Continue reading.