A Convenient Scapegoat
Doing almost nothing to prevent the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from spreading in the U.S. in the early days. Then panicking when it spread rapidly and passing the buck to China and eventually, to the World Health Organization (WHO). This sums up U.S. President Donald Trump’s “efforts” in the past months to cope with the pandemic.
WHO’s efforts to apprise the world of the dangers ahead by sending an expert group to China to learn about the outbreak, announcing a public health emergency of international concern on January 30, training medical staff and health workers and preparing medical supplies for vulnerable countries—all this work was summarily dismissed by the U.S. president, who also
