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Nearly one year after the U.S. found its first known coronavirus case, the country is hurtling toward 400,000 total deaths, and cases, hospitalizations and deaths have reached record highs. https://nyti.ms/3iouCJb
Nearly one year after the U.S. found its first known coronavirus case, the country is hurtling toward 400,000 total deaths, and cases, hospitalizations and deaths have reached record highs. https://nyti.ms/3iouCJb
Interviews with more than 100 health, political and community leaders, along with a review of emails and other state government records offer a fuller picture of three major things that went wrong in the U.S.’s pandemic response. https://nyti.ms/3iouCJb
1. The severity of the current outbreak can be traced to the rush to reopen last spring. Many governors moved quickly, sometimes acting over the objections of their advisers. https://nyti.ms/3iouCJb
2. Science was sidelined at every level of government. More than 100 state and local health officials have been fired or have resigned since the beginning of the pandemic. https://nyti.ms/3iouCJb
3. Records show that at least 26 states ignored recommendations from the White House on masks and other health issues. Other states suffered, in part, from a lack of federal guidance. http://nyti.ms/3iouCJb
Read how the U.S. guaranteed its own failure during the coronavirus pandemic, by
@smervosh, @ByMikeBaker, @PatriciaMazzei and @bymarkwalker: http://nyti.ms/3iouCJb
@smervosh, @ByMikeBaker, @PatriciaMazzei and @bymarkwalker: http://nyti.ms/3iouCJb
