1/2 Many thanks ⁦ @wolfblitzer⁩ for hosting me ⁦ @CNNSitRoom⁩ as we reach a grim milestone of 170,000 deaths. I reacted to misleading WH statement that Americans would not “react well” to prohibitions, as they invoked what I termed some twisted version of de Tocqueville

2/2 But the truth is there was never WH leadership to shape a national plan with directives to the states. Even if not legally binding they would have had a powerful public health impact, especially in Southern States, which saw a resurgence accounting for 1/5 world cases

And now of course, the full impact of a failed approach is being realized - historic decimation of Hispanic communities across the Southern US, also African American and Native American communities, beyond awful